User:Eriksiers

I can do this
Language	Proficiency
BASIC	Greybeard
PowerBASIC	Greybeard
Visual Basic	Greybeard
DOS Batch File	Meh
VBScript	Meh
Assembly	Dork
Pascal	Dork
Seed7	Dork
UNIX Shell	Dork
C	Grue
C++	Grue
Visual Basic .NET	Weasel

I'd rather not do this
Languages	Reasons
.Net Framework	just not my thing
C	I can... but I don't wanna
C++	ditto
everything but BASIC	no, really

Somewhat obviously, my name is Erik Siers. I seem to be the current BASIC cheerleader on RC. (I can do other languages, but I prefer BASIC by a lot.)

I've been working on a VB4/5/6-to-ANSI-C/C++ translator for a while. A long while -- first got the idea several years ago. No released code as yet, but it's progressing... slowly. Really slowly. One problem is that I'm writing it in VB6, so that it can translate itself (a self-hosting compiler). I also need to do it without using any API calls whatsoever. (Not that hard, but I've already had to kick myself a few times.)

I could use some help, actually. Anyone familiar with non-.Net Visual Basic, C, or C++ would be very much appreciated. If you wanna join the party, drop me a line.

Current events

One of my brother's dogs just died (update: last week). I had to do the clean-up because everyone else is at work. [sigh]

Update: Now the puppy is sick with parvo. That's probably what killed the other one. Dammit.

Operating Systems

I use a lot of OS's:

• BeOS (emulated, sorta)
• DOS (MS-DOS 7.1 on the hardware, a few others emulated)
• Linux (Slackware on the hardware, a few other distros emulated)
• Mac OS 7 (aka System 7, both on the hardware and emulated)
  • (soon to possibly be replaced by A/UX -- if I can get it to install)
• OS/2 (eComStation, emulated)
• QNX (emulated)
• Windows (98SE & XP on the hardware, several other versions emulated)
• various other toy OS's that you've never heard of

I do not use BSD. I don't have anything against it, but I'm too used to the Linux way of doing things, and BSD is just... different. (Okay, I suppose that Linux is the different one, but you know what I mean.) I've got NetBSD and FreeBSD on CD somewhere, but I'm not willing to try them again this year.

My code contributions

Unless otherwise specifically indicated, I disclaim any rights I might have to any code that I have posted to Rosetta Code, and assign any appropriate copyright to Michael Mol. (Everything posted to RC is automatically covered by the GNU FDL.)

This specifically applies to code that I have posted. Other people's code that I have made changes to belongs to them, not me, and I disclaim any rights I might have to those changes.

My very first edit was adding BASIC to the task Convert an integer into words.

My 100th edit was the QuickBasic -> QuickBASIC redirect page.

My 250th edit was the Windows Scripting Host -> Windows Script Host redirect page.

I haven't yet reached 500 edits but it'll happen sooner or later.

Unsorted Code

Some stuff that I wanted to put up here, but don't have any idea how to categorize (or else they don't fit any one category very well, or whatever).

• Prime numbers
• to OS

Links

I put up my programming links on their own page. Have fun.

This is my Wikipedia user page.

This is my Sourceforge profile.

This is my most recent personal home page, although DomainDLX is such a terrible free provider that my page has more downtime than uptime. I haven't bothered updating this page in some time... and it's just a crappy personal page anyway.

My Sourceforge projects:

• EEShell2 -- a replacement shell for 32-bit Windows
• KanjiFinder -- a tool to help English-speaking users find Japanese kanji (data files never completed)
• Proxlat -- a general-purpose binary translator (effectively abandoned as freakin' impossible)
• QuickRun a simple program launcher (started as part of EEShell2)
• Visible -- a Visual Basic-to-C/C++ translator (in progress)
• Erik's tools -- a small handful of tiny utilities I wrote (I really need to update this one...)

Quote of the Day

Computers are useless. They can only give you answers.
 -- Pablo Picasso