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Although still in use, it has already been deprecated.

This is what is being used now: https://root.cern.ch/drupal/content/cling.

Oh, 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.

Ironically written by someone with a last name of Goto; the jokes just write themselves.

I 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.

Damn. And I thought that C++ was so hardcore[1] by now that it was only seriously used by full-time programmers. :)

[1] Read: complicated.

I 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.