User talk:Ppetit

Hey Phil; Dave Dyer here.
I'm probably the fool that misspelled your name in the first place, but not the one who insisted on keeping it that way. I'd love to get you back in my personal address list so drop me a line if you ever check in on this. -- ddyer@real-me.net —Preceding unsigned comment added by Ddyer (talk • contribs) 00:43, 29 October 2007 (UTC)

As I can't seem to figure out how to send a message to Jaysweet, or any of the other people who insist on undoing my corrections, I'm posting this note here, and elsewhere.

My name is Phil Petit (Note spelling, please). I was one of the three designers of Foonly. Surely I have the right to correct the spelling of my name. If you believe I do not have that right, please explain yourself.

Furthermore, several things in the original article were just plain wrong. For example, the ridiculous description of the origin of the name Foonly. It had nothing to do with an error message from the assembler. I ought to know, I wrote the assembler in question (it was called FAIL -- being something of a follow-on to an assembler for the PDP-1, written by Poole, and called PASS). So, I removed the incorrect explanation and added the correct one, in my note at the bottom.

Please leave my changes in place. They are correct. The old version is not correct.

--Phil Petit 7/29/07

How Stuff Works
For future reference in case you should ever come back -- Wikipedia of course welcomes corrections although you have to tread lightly when editing material that concerns yourself (generally you should limit yourself to what can be cited from a respectable third-party source), however it's important to note that an article is an article, not an ongoing discussion -- editorial comments belong on the "talk page" attached to each article, and not in the article itself. Also, don't forget to sign your comments with four tildes, like this: ~

Welcome, Andrew Rodland (talk) 06:07, 25 November 2007 (UTC)

Foonly discussion
Hi! I just posted in the discussion thread on Talk:Foonly where you posted in 2007. Could I email-interview you? Kragen Javier Sitaker (talk) —Preceding undated comment added 03:26, 3 January 2012 (UTC).