Re: Response to ROOT criticism?

> > Yes, it would but no-one else in the world needs it to do so, because
> > no-one else tries to interpret C++.

> Not true. Take a look at

> * CH - http://www.softintegration.com/
 

Yes, I did look at ( I did it before too ;). Obviously it is NOT C++ !!! it is "a superset of C"

Check the picture http://www.softintegration.com/images/support/chwithothers.gif

The Web page: http://www.softintegration.com/products/

Ch is an embeddable interpreter that provides a superset of C with salient extensions. It parses and executes C code directly without intermediate code or byte code.

I found no description of the equivalent of the ROOT ACliC capability yet.  

What about your second:

> * UnderC - http://home.mweb.co.za/sd/sdonovan/underc.html <http://home.mweb.co.za/sd/sdonovan/underc.html>

It sounds like the last release of the UnderC was done 3 years ago !!!  

The page http://home.mweb.co.za/sd/sdonovan/faq.htm <http://home.mweb.co.za/sd/sdonovan/faq.htm> says:  

" . . . 3. This has been done before. Why do it again?

The only freely available interactive C++ interpreter that I know of is CINT, which is by Masaharu Goto. CINT was used as the basis for the ROOT <http://root.cern.ch/root/Cint.html> class library developed at CERN and used at many high-energy physics research labs. There are a number of C interpreters under active open development, like EiC <http://www.kd-dev.com/~eic/overview/> , and several C-like languages like ElastiC, ICI and Pike.

 I had actually done most of UnderC before I heard of CINT,

. . . "

Cheers, Valeri Fine Received on Sat Aug 12 2006 - 17:43:06 MEST