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=Current events=
=Current events=


This has been a terrible week. Last night, two of my servers decided that it would be '''''great''''' to not work. At all. <font size="1">Stupid non-standard Compaq POS.</font>
Only two more years... only two more years... <font size=1>only two more years...</font>


=Operating Systems=
=Operating Systems=


I use a lot of OS's:
I use a lot of OS's:
*[[MS-DOS]] 7.1
*[[MS-DOS]] 7.1 (from [[wp:Windows 98SE|Windows 98SE]])
*[http://www.slackware.com/ Slackware] [[Linux]] 12.2 (because I don't like the changes made for v13)
*[http://www.slackware.com/ Slackware] [[Linux]] 12.2 (because I don't like the changes made for v13)
*[[Mac OS]] 8
*[[Mac OS]] 8
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*[[Windows]] [[wp:Windows XP|XP]]
*[[Windows]] [[wp:Windows XP|XP]]
:stupid garbage OS is giving me problems with games... '''THAT'S THE MAIN REASON I STILL USE WINDOWS!!!'''
:stupid garbage OS is giving me problems with games... '''THAT'S THE MAIN REASON I STILL USE WINDOWS!!!'''

I don't 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 a few flavors of BSD on CD, but I'm not willing to try them again any time soon.


=My code contributions=
=My code contributions=
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=Quote of the Day=
=Quote of the Day=
"Magic" is a symbol for any process not understood.
I disapprove of what you say,
-- Robert A. Heinlein
but I will defend to the death your right to say it.
-- Evelyn Beatrice Hall, summarizing Voltaire's philosophy
(commonly misattributed to Voltaire himself)

Revision as of 18:15, 10 October 2010

I can do this
Language Proficiency
BASIC Greybeard
PowerBASIC Greybeard
Visual Basic Greybeard
Batch File Meh
VBScript Meh
Assembly Dork
Pascal Dork
Seed7 Dork
UNIX Shell Dork
Befunge Grue
C Grue
C++ Grue
Ruby Grue
Visual Basic .NET Weasel
PHP '''just started learning
I'd rather not do this
Languages Reasons
.Net Framework I can... but I don't wanna
C ditto
C++ ditto
[[:Category:anything but BASIC|anything but BASIC]] do I really need a reason?

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.)

(Another problem is that I have very little motivation to work on this project.)

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

Current events

Only two more years... only two more years... only two more years...

Operating Systems

I use a lot of OS's:

stupid garbage OS is giving me problems with games... THAT'S THE MAIN REASON I STILL USE WINDOWS!!!

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 RC edit was adding BASIC to the task Convert an integer into words (now Number names).

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).

Links

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

This is my Wikipedia user page. (Wikipedia is also probably the best way to contact me right now, since my email addresses are sorta in limbo...)

This is my Sourceforge profile.

My Sourceforge projects:

  • EEShell2 -- a replacement shell for 32-bit Windows
  • IgrokYa -- a file type identifier (like file(1))
  • 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

"Magic" is a symbol for any process not understood.
 -- Robert A. Heinlein