JonFParis

Re:“Who is Jon Paris” and other questions on Friday September 11, 2015 @09:40AM (#10203576)

Since you mention an interest in history dang, you and others might find this article of interest. My partner and I wrote it to celebrate the 25th anniversary of the IBM i. http://www.ibmsystemsmag.com/ibmi/developer/rpg/RPG_25/.

More recently I have been authoring a "behind the scenes" review of the birth of the current version of RPG. It discusses evolution of the language of which I was one of the "fathers" during my time with IBM. The series is not yet complete but starts here: http://www.ibmsystemsmag.com/Blogs/iDevelop/June-2015/The-Bi...

Re:The Completely Different World of Python with IBM i on Friday September 11, 2015 @09:09AM (#10203438)

Since the commenting to individual posts is not available then anyone who is interested can read some of my responses here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10200586.

Please feel free to comment further.

Re:“Who is Jon Paris” and other questions on Friday September 11, 2015 @09:05AM (#10203416)

Thanks dang for your warm welcome. I will address the outstanding comments in the original thread.

Re:“Who is Jon Paris” and other questions on Thursday September 10, 2015 @07:42PM (#10201226)

Thanks for the info. I found out in another thread that it is shut down 14 days after the last comment. I just saw it all too late since I don't frequent this board/list.

“Who is Jon Paris” and other questions

Posted by JonFParis on Thursday September 10, 2015 @05:11PM
from the self-post dept.

Since I was personally singled out for ridicule (albeit relatively gentle) in this thread (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10093590) but cannot comment there I thought that those who commented might appreciate a response. I'm apparently limited to 2,000 characters so there will be a lot left out.<quote>Oh boy! Who is Jon Paris, and what is this article? It's as if somebody was...

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Re:How do I reply to a thread? on Thursday September 10, 2015 @02:38PM (#10199766)

Fast moving world when 20 days is "old". What is the time limit? I guess I'll have to start a new thread or just let it go.

Thanks to those who responded.

Re:How do I reply to a thread? on Thursday September 10, 2015 @01:18PM (#10199305)

I can see it on your response (and it was what I was looking for) but I see no sign of it in the posts to this thread https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10093590

How do I reply to a thread?

Posted by JonFParis on Thursday September 10, 2015 @01:05PM
from the self-post dept.

As the "target" of a recent thread I'd like to be able to respond to some of the comments but see no option for replying. Can someone please enlighten me - this board/list doesn't seem to operate the way most that I am familiar with do.

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