From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: Date: Sat, 13 Sep 2008 14:44:00 -0300 From: "Iruata Souza" To: "Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs" <9fans@9fans.net> In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <775b8d190809122111q5b19b2d4nc4abe8db3ee3bed1@mail.gmail.com> Subject: Re: [9fans] cin is in Topicbox-Message-UUID: 10cc97cc-ead4-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 On Sat, Sep 13, 2008 at 3:45 AM, Michaelian Ennis wrote: > On Sat, Sep 13, 2008 at 12:11 AM, Bruce Ellis wrote: >> I don't know how you get the source but it is a cool program. >> >> It can simulate itself simulating itself simulating another program. >> Lotsa cool stuff. >> >> http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=107172.107190&coll=GUIDE&dl=GUIDE > > I couldn't find the source to CIN but I did find cint. > > http://root.cern.ch/twiki/bin/view/ROOT/CINT > > It complied and ran on my mac no problem. My examination of it was > cursory though. > I used CINT only together with ROOT and personally felt using C++ as a interpreted language a little weird; no technical remarks here, only personal ones, tho. Anyway, as far as I could tell, people I know who work with ROOT on a more daily basis write the programs as usually they do with C++ the only difference being that they aren't compiled. They don't seem to use the interpreter as much as programmers from other languages considered as interpreted do. iru