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

Emailing me

Please don't email me unless it's urgent. (And really, what could be urgent about RC that concerns me?) If you want to tell me something, use my user_talk page. That's what it's for.

Current events

I shaved! Really! For job-hunting. Don't I look happy about it? Yes, I had that beard for a reason. (If the pic shows me with a beard, then the cache needs clearing. Nothing I can do about that, sadly, but clicking on the pic (or here), it'll take you to a page that shows the current version.)

I'm looking to improve and expand my list of languages I know. (Specifically, I'd like to get Assembly and C up to at least "Meh", and C++ up to at least "Dork".) Right now, I'm learning GML, which is the secret love child of C and Pascal. An interesting language, all things considered, but probably not very useful in Corporate America.

Operating Systems

I use a lot of OS's:

MS-DOS 7.1 (from Windows 98SE)
Slackware Linux 12.2 (because I don't like the changes made for v13)
Mac OS 8
- also System 7, on a different machine
Windows XP

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.

My 500th edit was re-adding the implementation template to PowerBASIC Console Compiler.

REALbasic

It should be noted that all REALbasic examples that I've written (which can be found by looking through my user contributions page) were written in REALbasic 5.5.5, which is several years old. (For comparison, this might be considered somewhat akin to writing in C90 instead of C99 (or C1X), or writing for the original VB.Net instead of VB2010 -- my examples will probably work under modern versions... but they might not. YMMV.)

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 (I really need to update this one...)
My email
Alternate (broken) VB solution to the unbounded knapsack problem

Links

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

This is my Wikipedia user page.

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

Life... is strength.
That is not to be contested; it seems logical enough.
You live; you affect your world.