The best thing since sliced bread …

Posted by admin on February 23rd, 2010 filed in AstraNOS, Source Code, blog, funny

I spent the weekend working with a new, cool tool I found online.

It is called CINT and is part of ROOT

The ROOT system provides a set of OO frameworks with all the functionality needed to handle and analyze large amounts of data in a very efficient way …

Thanks to the built-in CINT C++ interpreter the command language, the scripting, or macro, language and the programming language are all C++. …

The system has been designed in such a way that it can query its databases in parallel on clusters of workstations or many-core machines.

As for me, I created a server - client application which integrates cint and handles server requests synchronously from the client point of view.

I can’t tell you how cool this is to have a C++ scripting language to your disposal. Not only can you execute C++ as scripts you can simply mix and match compiled code with script code and vice versa.

I think the implications are seen only by those who understand C++ and what this tool can do for business logic running on a server. Okay I know java is jada jada jada … I just could never warm up to it. Full stop !

Also you can compile the C++ code into either bytecode OR you can compile it natively, just what the doctor prescribed.

So I think this is my cool find for the day. I got it through svn and installed it on ALL my machines without any compilation error or any other missing dependency.