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	The compiler I use for almost everything
Visual Basic	What I use for Windows GUI... for now
VBA	Where I do most of my paying work
QuickBASIC	My preferred DOS IDE
REALbasic	Nice language, but I don't use it for much.
Batch File	Somewhere between "okay" and "decent"
UNIX Shell	Nowhere near as good as I need to be
C	I usually 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
GML	Minimal knowledge
Visual Basic .NET	Meh
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 a few times a week for several months, then disappear completely for several more.

Current events

Dropped a few hundred bucks on a new system... my first new desktop computer ever. (The tablet doesn't count. I can't use it as a normal desktop machine.) 16 GB RAM = happy Erik.

Now if I could just get 64-bit XP to install...

Operating Systems

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

My tablet:

• Windows 7 Home Premium

My old workstation (currently unplugged):

• Windows XP Professional
• Windows XP Professional x64 Edition
• MS-DOS 7.1 (from Windows 98 Second Edition)

My new workstation:

• Windows 7 Ultimate x64

My server:

• Slackware Linux 13.37

I also toy around with numerous other operating systems under emulation (too many to list, but includes almost every 32-bit version of Windows (up to and including XP), 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 C11), 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
• BBC BASIC detokenizer
• Maze generation
• TrimNonPrintables (remove all nonprintable/whitespace characters from a string)
• Linked lists for VB/VBA

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 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 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Nmnogueira#Graphics_and_Diagrams
• The Art of Clean Up: Sorting and Stacking Everyday Objects (because why not?)

My Sourceforge projects

• EEShell2 -- a replacement shell for 32-bit Windows
  • only tested through WinXP
  • usable through at least 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

Doing a good thing sometimes means being a very bad person.