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Cnet 新闻

“Bob Bemer, a computer pioneer who helped develop the ASCII coding system and the technology that led to the "escape" key, has died at the age of 84…”

IT业者列举了他的贡献：

• helped create COBOL
• coined the words COBOL and CODASYL
• invented the ESCape sequence
• created the PICTURE clause
• helped create and standardize the ASCII character set
• put the backslash into the ASCII set
• helped create the 8-bit per byte standard