Switching to Wordpress?

As my post yesterday alluded to, I'm switching to Wordpress (at least for the time being). The entire blog has been transferred over there thanks to the import mechanism.

I invite my reader(s) to try the new site and tell me what they think. I believe that for users, Wordpress is a big win, but your opinion matters. Please leave comments on either side, I will be monitoring both. I will, however, be posting mostly on the Wordpress side.

Hello World - Switching to Wordpress?

This is a copy of my first blog post created on Wordpress

Following a comment I made regarding the controversy about the applicability to Wordpress themes of GNU GPL (the license under which Wordpress is distributed), I was invited to switch to Wordpress by its creator. It's hard to say no... So I created a Wordpress account and a blog. Wordpress creates a first blog entry for you. The title of this first post is "Hello World!". For programmers, "Hello World" is a very special thing. It is this small little program that prints "Hello World" on the screen. In C, it looks like this:

#include <stdio.h>
int main(int argc, char *argv[])
{
    printf("Hello world!\n");
}

The output of this wonderful little program on the console is the following:

Hello world!

To achieve the same result with my own programming language, XL, you'd write something like:

use XL.UI.CONSOLE
WriteLn "Hello world!"

The Hello World program is a small benchmark of what a programming language can do. For example, the team behind Google's Go programming language used Hello World to highlight their support for internationalization.

A 3D "Hello World!" in 23 lines of code...

So with such an exciting blog post title, it's only fair that I would use this post to show what Hello World looks like in the stuff we are developing at Taodyne:

The video is a bit skippy, but it looks smoother in real life. Apparently, there's something wrong in the combination of grabbing the screen with Snapz Pro X, creating a movie with iMovie and publishing on YouTube. Don't ask me why, I'm just the computer guy...