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 actually 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
VBScript	I'm... okay...
JavaScript	...learning
C	I usually write in BASIC, then translate
C++	I usually write in BASIC, then translate
Pascal	Read-only, for the most part
Assembly	Read-only
PHP	Minimal knowledge
GML	Minimal knowledge
Befunge	Shrug

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

I haven't been working on Visible. Instead, I've been focusing on projects with the potential to generate some income... and even those haven't been moving forward very quickly.

Oh, and I bought my wife a 2020 Intel iMac... a week before the new M1 iMacs were announced. Sigh.

Operating Systems

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

My workstation:

• Windows 10, for now. Dual-booting with an older version of System Rescue CD.

My server:

• Slackware Linux v.current

My MacBook:

• macOS Big Sur

My iMac:

• Mac OS X Snow Leopard

My G4 Mac:

• Mac OS X Leopard/Mac OS X Tiger/Mac OS 9

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.

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.)

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... but they might not. YMMV.)

On the other hand, I recently installed the current version of Xojo. Maybe I'll be able to find out what works and what doesn't.

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
• Permute a string

Links

I put up my programming links on their own page. They haven't been updated in a very long time.

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
  • Haven't worked on this for several years. Not really meant for NT6+. (Even has some oddities under XP.) Effectively abandoned.
• IgrokYa -- a file type identifier (like file(1); originally part of Proxlat (below))
  • Not quite abandoned. I have intentions of restarting this one from scratch.
• 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 in the near-ish future.
• QuickRun -- a simple program launcher (started as part of EEShell2)
• Visible -- a Visual Basic-to-C++ translator
  • Restarted! Help wanted!
• Erik's tools -- a small handful of tiny utilities I wrote some time ago

Quote of the Day

Your first language is hard.
Your second language is harder.