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Somewhat obviously, my name is Erik Siers. I |
Somewhat obviously, my name is Erik Siers. I'm one of the BASIC cheerleaders on RC. (I can do other languages, but I prefer BASIC by a lot.) |
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I've been working on a [http://sourceforge.net/projects/visible/ 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 [[wp:Self-hosting|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've been working on a [http://sourceforge.net/projects/visible/ 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 [[wp:Self-hosting|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.) |
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=Current events= |
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This has easily been the worst week of this year... so far. |
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Time to update ye olde resume and find a new job. Short vacation first, though. |
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Hawking! I checked the math! 2 + 2 isn't 5, it's 6! 6!!! |
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The infection has been removed. The soul of this machine has improved. |
Revision as of 08:13, 22 May 2011
If it's not listed, it's read-only... at best | |
Language | Proficiency |
BASIC | My preferred language family |
PowerBASIC | My overall favorite BASIC |
REALbasic | What I use for Linux GUI |
Visual Basic | What I use for Windows GUI |
QuickBASIC | My most-used language |
Batch File | Somewhere between "decent" and "good" |
UNIX Shell | Nowhere near as good as I need to be |
C | I often write in BASIC, then translate |
VBScript | I'm... okay... |
PHP | Still learning |
Assembly | Read-only, for the most part |
Pascal | Read-only, for the most part |
Ruby | Read-only, for the most part |
GML | Minimal knowledge |
Visual Basic .NET | Minimal knowledge |
Befunge | Shrug |
Somewhat obviously, my name is Erik Siers. I'm one of the BASIC cheerleaders 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 actually 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
This has easily been the worst week of this year... so far.
Operating Systems
I use a lot of OS's:
- Slackware Linux 12.2 (because I don't like the changes made for v13)
- Also Red Hat Enterprise Linux on a server I recently bought -- but only until I get around to putting something else on it... maybe Slackware, maybe not
- Windows XP (I will not be spending money on another version of Windows, unless I happen to buy a computer that includes it. I bought at least one copy of every major version of Windows, from 1.x through Server 2003; that's enough, I think.)
- Also the free beta version of Windows 7 on the new server, just because. Shrug.
- MS-DOS 7.1 (from Windows 98SE)
- Mac OS 8
- Also System 7, on a different machine
I also toy around with numerous other operating systems under emulation (too many to list).
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 anyway.) 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. (Sigh.)
So far, I've only created a single task -- Sorting algorithms/Pancake sort -- but I have ideas for a few more.
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
Written Languages
The only spoken language I am only able to understand is English, but I can bull my way through several different written languages (and of course, various online translators help a lot); most notably:
- Spanish, slowly (and incompletely)
- French (sorta)
- Latin (sorta)
- Japanese (pretty rusty)
- Russian (a bit)
Languages and/or alphabets on my "to learn" list:
- Chinese (dialect shouldn't matter, since they all use the same written language... in theory)
- Arabic (entirely cursive... sigh)
- Hebrew (um... I know "aleph")
- Thai (maybe)
Links
I put up my programming links on their own page. Have fun.
This is my Wikipedia user page.
This is my Sourceforge profile.
Sorting
Some neat pages that graphically display various sorting algorithms.
- http://sortvis.org/
- Software to generate these images available here.
- http://www.sorting-algorithms.com/
- This one offers a few different ways to compare various algorithms.
- http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Sort_algorithms
My Sourceforge projects
- EEShell2 -- a replacement shell for 32-bit Windows
- IgrokYa -- a file type identifier (like file(1))
- lost interest in this one... sigh
- KanjiFinder -- a tool to help English-speaking users find Japanese kanji
- data files nowhere near complete
- 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
Hawking! I checked the math! 2 + 2 isn't 5, it's 6! 6!!!