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Hi!

Today was the "cool things here, please!" day. I'll share two of them: computing and mostly non-computing.

We got our manuscript for a paper back, together with a couple of (really good) remarks by the reviewers. The way it works is: they read, comment, request changes, and only once they are satisfied will the journal publish the manuscript. Often you get a list like "Page 12, 3rd paragraph, please rephrase 'spaghetti code'"

Hi!

ROOT does not only work on Linux SLC4, 32 bit - it is working on so many platforms that people are disappointed if it does not work on their current OS. Supporting multiple platforms is not easy (example: I am trying to re-install my old windows box from scratch, so my summer student can use it - and I am doing that since about two hours now, argh). But here I just want to talk a bit about compiler versions.

given that we usually only let our code speak, I thought it might be a good idea to write a few lines, once a while, on what we do. You will mostly get to hear what I am up to because I don't want to speak (too much :-) for my colleagues. My main responsibility is CINT and Reflex, i.e. ROOT's interpreter and dictionary engines, stuff that you probably only hear about because you ended up reading this page! :-)