<clears throat> A-Him? ... perhaps I mean: A-Her?

seems to me I have seen Admiral Grace Hopper associated with some of those assertions. http://www.wic.org/bio/ghopper.htm Mother of the Computer http://whatis.techtarget.com/definition/0,,sid9_gci213732,00.html ... is generally credited with developments that led to COBOL,

Ron Fehd the C.S. his/herstory maven CDC Atlanta GA USA RJF2@cdc.gov

> -----Original Message----- > From: Choate, Paul@DDS

> So just who is Bob Bemer? Edmund Arranga of the COBOL Report says: > > Mr. Bemer's accomplishments resonate so deeply one almost > assumes they have been with us always, snatched out of the > ether by a collective consciousness, instead of having been > the creation of one man. A short list > includes: > > helped create COBOL (as in "Grandfather of") > coined the words COBOL and CODASYL > invented the ESCape sequence > created the PICTURE clause > helped create and standardize the ASCII character set (as in > "Father of") put the backslash into the ASCII set helped > create the 8-bit per byte standard