User:Eriksiers

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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 preferred
IDE, but I don't really use it any more
FreeBASIC The compiler I actually use for a lot of my personal
projects and some of my paying work
Xojo This is where I currently perform most of my paying work
REALbasic (This is the same language as Xojo)
C I'm adequate; some paying work happens here
VBA Where I used to do a lot of my paying work
Visual Basic .NET Meh. I use it when I need to
Visual Basic What I used for Windows GUI before Windows 7
QuickBASIC I don't really use it very much any more
Batch File Somewhere between "okay" and "decent"
UNIX Shell Nowhere near as good as I need to be
VBScript I'm... okay...
C++ I'm... okay...
PHP Minimal knowledge
JavaScript shrug
Assembly Read-only
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've been a member of RC for a long time -- I created my account in 2009 -- but I am not one of the original crew, not by a few years. I don't really do any edits any more; my last meaningful edit (besides this page) was in mid-2018.

Current events

Client work continues. I'm liking Xojo enough that I intend to do a commercial project there, once I can afford a "professional" license.

Also, I'm available for freelance work. Just sayin'.

Operating Systems

I use a lot of OS's, depending on which physical system we're talking about...

My workstation:

  • Windows 10, for now. Considering my options. Work happens in various systems under emulation.

My server:

My work laptop:

My personal laptop:

My iMac:

My G5 Mac:

  • No idea, actually. I got it and then stuck it in a closet without even testing to see if it works. Probably has Mac OS X Leopard, if I had to guess.

My G4 Mac:

My ThinkPad:

It's funny that I own so many Macs, since I consider pre-X Macs to be overpriced toys, but since modern macOS is built on top of a *nix system... ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

I also toy around with numerous other operating systems under emulation, including systems most people have never even heard of. (To get an idea, look at the number of OS-related pages here I've created and/or worked on.)

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 and all appropriate copyrights 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.)

I've only created a single task, Sorting algorithms/Pancake sort, and I think it's unlikely that I'll create any more at this point.

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 C99 instead of the current standard, or writing for the original VB.Net instead of the current release -- my examples will probably work under modern versions of Xojo... but they might not. YMMV.)

Even though I have a license for modern Xojo, I haven't tested any of my REALbasic contributions there. Not yet, probably not ever. But my personal code that I've moved from RB to Xojo has largely worked.

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).

Links

I put up my programming links on their own page. They haven't been updated in a very long time. (Seriously. We're talking 15+ years. I'd be surprised if more than about 1 in 20 still works.)

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 pages that graphically display various sorting algorithms.

My Sourceforge projects

  • EEShell4 -- a replacement shell for 32- and 64-bit Windows.
    • I restarted work last year on this after letting it sit idle for something like 10-15 years. Unsurprisingly, it's sitting idle once again.
  • IgrokYa -- a file type identifier (like file(1) or TrID; originally part of Proxlat (below)).
    • The only free project I make any pretense of actively working on.
  • Visible -- a Visual Basic-to-C++ translator.
    • Slowly progressing. Very slowly, as in "I started more than 20 years ago and haven't progressed beyond a simple tokenizer" slowly, due to a combination of "lack of time", "lack of appropriate knowledge", and "lack of attention span".
  • KanjiFinder -- a tool to help English-speaking users find Japanese kanji.
    • Program's done, but data files are nowhere near complete. Effectively abandoned.
  • Proxlat -- a general-purpose binary translator.
    • Abandoned as impossible. I might restart this with a narrower scope at some point in the future.
  • QuickRun -- a simple program launcher (started as part of EEShell2).
  • Erik's tools -- a small handful of tiny very-specific-purpose utilities I wrote some time ago.

Quote of the Day

C programmers do not use cute names like ThisVariableIsATemporaryCounter.
A C programmer would call that variable "tmp", which is much easier to
write, and not the least more difficult to understand.
-- Linux kernel coding style doc