User:Eriksiers: Difference between revisions

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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 [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.)

(Another problem is that I have very little motivation to actually work on this project.)

I could use some help, actually. Anyone familiar with [[:Category:Visual Basic|Visual Basic]] (''not'' [[:Category:Visual Basic .NET|VB.Net]]), [[:Category:C|C]], or (especially) [[:Category:C++|C++]] would be very much appreciated. If you wanna join the party, [[User talk:Eriksiers|drop me a line]].

=Current events=

Happy Turkey Day, USA-ians! ''gobble gobble''

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~~I've~~ ~~written~~ a ~~(very)~~ short essay about why I use my real name as my username instead of remaining anonymous or using a pseudonym~~. It's~~ on ~~[[wp:User:Eriksiers#My_real_name.3F|~~my Wikipedia user page]].

=Operating Systems=

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I use a lot of OS's:

*[[wp:Slackware|Slackware]] [[Linux]] 13.37

**Also [[wp:Red Hat Enterprise Linux|Red Hat Enterprise Linux]] on my ~~rackmount~~ server -- but only until I get around to putting something else on it... maybe Slackware, maybe not

**Also [[wp:Red Hat Enterprise Linux|Red Hat Enterprise Linux]] on my server -- but only until I get around to putting something else on it... maybe Slackware, maybe not

*[[Windows]] [[wp:Windows XP|XP]]

**Also [[wp:Windows XP Professional x64 Edition|WinXP x64]] and [[wp:Windows 7|Windows 7]] (32-bit) on my x64 machine, for testing my programs

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****I ''might'' try Win8, if I can get it for free, legally -- but not holding my breath

*[[MS-DOS]] 7.1 (from [[wp:Windows 98#Windows 98 Second Edition|Windows 98SE]])

*[[wp:AROS Research Operating System|AROS]], because I wanted a non-Windows, non-*nix, non-DOS OS on my main machine

*[[wp:AROS Research Operating System|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 [[wp:PowerBook|PowerBook]]

**Also [[wp:System 7|System 7]], on my [[wp:Macintosh Performa|Performa]]

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*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 100th edit was creating the [[QuickBasic]] -> [[QuickBASIC]] redirect page.

*My 250th edit was the [[Windows Scripting Host]] -> [[Windows Script Host]] redirect page.

*My 250th edit was creating the [[Windows Scripting Host]] -> [[Windows Script Host]] redirect page.

*My 500th edit was re-adding the [[Template:Implementation|implementation template]] to [[PowerBASIC Console Compiler]]. (Sigh.)

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'''[http://eriksiers.altervista.org 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...)

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[[wp:User:Eriksiers#My real name?|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==

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*[http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Sort_algorithms http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Sort_algorithms]

**Also [http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Animations_of_algorithms http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Animations_of_algorithms]

**And also [~~http~~:~~//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/~~User:Nmnogueira#~~Graphics_and_Diagrams~~ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Nmnogueira#Graphics_and_Diagrams]

**And also [wp:User:Nmnogueira#Graphics and Diagrams|http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Nmnogueira#Graphics_and_Diagrams]]

==My Sourceforge projects==

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*[http://sourceforge.net/projects/visible/ Visible] -- a Visual Basic-to-C/C++ translator

**work stalled, as usual

*[http://sourceforge.net/projects/eriks-tools Erik's tools] -- a small handful of tiny utilities I wrote

*[http://sourceforge.net/projects/eriks-tools Erik's tools] -- a small handful of tiny utilities I wrote some time ago

**I really need to update this one...

=Quote of the Day=

<lang c>/* This program will only run if the laws of mathematics hold */

There's nothing more rewarding than improving the code, and then discovering,

if(1 == 0) {

yay, there's still the improvement you set out to do in the first place. \o/

fprintf("Oh crap - we are not running in the correct Universe\n");

-- [[User:Short Circuit|Michael Mol]]

exit(17);

}</lang>

(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])