The art of not being one with the universe

The CINT C/C++ Interpreter is precisely what it sounds like. Mostly works, and has some minor syntax extensions. Not entirely useless when writing in this language, though I haven’t tested fancier features like using external compiled libraries and suchlike. It’s used in ROOT. Such a clever name for a scientific programming environment. One nifty feature is that when you load a datafile in a ROOT session (which is a CINT session with various ROOT things loaded), that datafile’s variables appear magically in the local scope. I expect C programmers to cringe, but to us users of MATLAB® and IDL it’s commonplace. And it doesn’t happen if you don’t want it to.