User:Eriksiers

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...
PHP	Still learning
Lisp	Still learning
Pascal	Read-only, for the most part
Assembly	Read-only, for the most part
GML	Minimal knowledge
Visual Basic .NET	Minimal knowledge
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.

Don't I look happy?

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'm in and out of here on no regular schedule -- I might contribute several times a week for several months, then disappear completely for several more.

Current events

Job hunting again. Yay.

Operating Systems

I use a lot of OS's:

• Slackware Linux 13.37 on my main server
  • Also Red Hat Enterprise Linux on my rack server -- but only until I get around to putting something else on it... maybe Slackware, maybe not
• Windows XP
  • Also WinXP x64 and Windows 7 (32-bit), for testing my programs
    • Win7 is way too slow on my systems to be usable
      • I might try Win8, if I can get it for free, legally -- but not holding my breath
• 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 (precursor to OSX; essentially NeXT + a Mac GUI), just for kicks

I also toy around with numerous other operating systems under emulation (too many to list, but includes almost 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
• User:Eriksiers/BBC BASIC detokenizer

Links

I put up my programming links on their own page. They haven't been updated in quite a while, though.

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

Your anguish sustains me.