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Job hunting again. Yay. |
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Happy Turkey Day, USA-ians! ''gobble gobble'' |
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Do not spill the buckets of stupid! |
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<lang c>/* This program will only run if the laws of mathematics hold */ |
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fprintf("Oh crap - we are not running in the correct Universe\n"); |
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(from [http://thedailywtf.com/Articles/ISelfAware,-Very-Thorough,-Crazy-Hashmaps,-and-More.aspx http://thedailywtf.com/Articles/ISelfAware,-Very-Thorough,-Crazy-Hashmaps,-and-More.aspx]) |
Revision as of 21:28, 1 December 2011
If it's not listed, it's read-only... at best | |
Language | Proficiency |
BASIC | My preferred language family |
PowerBASIC | My overall favorite BASIC, and my overall-preferred IDE |
FreeBASIC | What I use for Linux-everything-else |
Visual Basic | What I use for Windows GUI... for now |
QuickBASIC | My preferred DOS IDE |
REALbasic | What I would use for Linux GUI, if I had to |
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... |
Lisp | Still learning |
PHP | Still learning |
WeiDU | 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 |
NeoBook | Just started learning |
Befunge | Shrug |
Not My Favorite Languages | |
Languages | Reasons |
QB64 | Bloat, unnecessary library requirements, weird C++ code generation. Definitely not ready for prime time. |
Liberty Basic | I have my reasons; let's leave it at that. |
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.)
Current events
Job hunting again. Yay.
Operating Systems
I use a lot of OS's:
- Slackware Linux 13.37
- Also Red Hat Enterprise Linux on my server -- but only until I get around to putting something else on it... maybe Slackware, maybe not
- Windows XP
- MS-DOS 7.1 (from Windows 98SE)
- AROS (a modern AmigaOS clone), because I wanted a non-Windows, non-*nix, non-DOS OS on my main machine
- Mac OS 8 on my PowerBook
- Also System 7, on my Performa
- Also also the x86 version of Rhapsody DR2, just for kicks
I also toy around with numerous other operating systems under emulation (too many to list, but includes every 32-bit version of Windows, more than a few Linux distros, and several other *nix systems).
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. (See Rosetta Code:Copyrights for RC's copyright policy.)
- My very first RC edit was adding BASIC to the task Convert an integer into words (now Number names).
- My 100th edit was creating the QuickBasic -> QuickBASIC redirect page.
- My 250th edit was creating 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.
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
- Alternate (improved?) CLISP exponentiation
- Sandbox/Randomizer -- a failed attempt at random redirects
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 what passes for my home page... not that I actually do anything with it. (Never even finished writing the pages; just kind of stopped halfway through...)
This is a short essay about why I use my real name as my username instead of remaining anonymous or using a pseudonym (on my Wikipedia user page).
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
- Also http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Animations_of_algorithms
- And also [wp:User:Nmnogueira#Graphics and Diagrams|http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Nmnogueira#Graphics_and_Diagrams]]
My Sourceforge projects
- EEShell2 -- a replacement shell for 32-bit Windows
- only usable through Win7; written in VB6, which is unsupported in Win8... or so I've heard
- IgrokYa -- a file type identifier (like file(1); originally part of Proxlat (below))
- work stalled
- KanjiFinder -- a tool to help English-speaking users find Japanese kanji
- program's done, but data files nowhere near complete
- Proxlat -- a general-purpose binary translator
- abandoned as impossible
- QuickRun a simple program launcher (started as part of EEShell2)
- Visible -- a Visual Basic-to-C/C++ translator
- work stalled, as usual
- Erik's tools -- a small handful of tiny utilities I wrote some time ago
Quote of the Day
Do not spill the buckets of stupid!