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It's interesting to note that High Energy Physicists all around the world will answer "yes", in fact they even created a C++ interpreter: https://root.cern.ch/d
by jnotarstefano 11y ago
It's interesting to note that High Energy Physicists all around the world will answer "yes", in fact they even created a C++ interpreter: https://root.cern.ch/drupal/content/cint https://root.cern.ch/drupal/content/cint.
- cnvogel 11y agoOh, the memories. Haven't used CINT (or rather, root) for quite some time, though. But if I remember correctly, then CINT wasn't actually developed by the root-team, but rather already existed when work on root started.
- cozzyd 11y agoIronically written by someone with a last name of Goto; the jokes just write themselves.
- vvnraman 11y agoAlthough still in use, it has already been deprecated. This is what is being used now: https://root.cern.ch/drupal/content/cling https://root.cern.ch/drupal/content/cling.
- nagrom 11y agoI believe that CINT started life as a tool for medical device development. I count that tool as one of the main reasons that physicists-by-training find 'proper' C++ so difficult to comprehend.
- Dewie3 11y agoDamn. And I thought that C++ was so hardcore[1] by now that it was only seriously used by full-time programmers. :) [1] Read: complicated.
- tormeh 11y agoI don't think that's how it goes. I think it's more that people who don't care about programming languages will stick with the first thing they learn until they are forced to change. If the first language they learn is C, C++ or FORTRAN then that's what they use.