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
Ruby	Grue
Befunge	just started
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
[[:Category:anything but BASIC|anything but BASIC]]	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 (especially) C++ would be very much appreciated. If you wanna join the party, drop me a line.

Current events

My Befunge interpreter sucks. I've gone back to working on Visible.

Operating Systems

I use a lot of OS's:

• MS-DOS 7.1
• Slackware Linux
• Mac OS 7 (aka System 7)
  • A/UX under emulation... eventually... maybe...
    • FAILED -- doesn't work on my real Mac! sob!
• Windows XP

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

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 most recent edit, aside from this page and the new My email page, was fixing that edit so that it works properly. Sigh.)

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 (I really need to update this one...)
• My email

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

My IQ is the square root of -1.