<s>
CINT	B-Application
is	O
a	O
command	B-Application
line	I-Application
C/C	O
++	O
interpreter	B-Application
that	O
was	O
originally	O
included	O
in	O
the	O
object	B-Language
oriented	I-Language
data	O
analysis	O
package	B-Application
ROOT	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Although	O
intended	O
for	O
use	O
with	O
the	O
other	O
faculties	O
of	O
ROOT	O
,	O
CINT	B-Application
can	O
also	O
be	O
used	O
as	O
a	O
standalone	O
addition	O
to	O
another	O
program	O
that	O
requires	O
such	O
an	O
interpreter	B-Application
.	O
</s>
<s>
In	O
2013	O
,	O
CERN	O
switched	O
to	O
the	O
Cling	O
C++	B-Language
interpreter	B-Application
,	O
so	O
CINT	B-Application
is	O
now	O
distributed	O
standalone	O
by	O
the	O
author	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
CINT	B-Application
is	O
an	O
interpreted	O
version	O
of	O
C/C	O
++	O
,	O
much	O
in	O
the	O
way	O
BeanShell	B-Language
is	O
an	O
interpreted	O
version	O
of	O
Java	B-Language
.	O
</s>
<s>
In	O
addition	O
to	O
being	O
a	O
language	O
interpreter	B-Application
,	O
it	O
offers	O
certain	O
Bash-like	O
shell	B-Application
features	O
such	O
as	O
history	O
and	O
tab-completion	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
To	O
accomplish	O
the	O
latter	O
,	O
it	O
relies	O
heavily	O
on	O
the	O
reflection	B-Language
support	O
built	O
into	O
ROOT	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
The	O
language	O
originally	O
interpreted	O
by	O
CINT	B-Application
was	O
actually	O
something	O
of	O
a	O
hybrid	O
between	O
C	B-Language
and	O
C++	B-Language
,	O
covering	O
about	O
95%	O
of	O
ANSI	O
C	B-Language
and	O
85%	O
of	O
C++	B-Language
.	O
</s>
<s>
In	O
addition	O
,	O
statements	O
on	O
the	O
command	B-Application
line	I-Application
do	O
not	O
need	O
to	O
end	O
with	O
a	O
semi-colon	O
,	O
although	O
this	O
is	O
necessary	O
for	O
statements	O
in	O
macros	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
As	O
an	O
alternative	O
to	O
CINT	B-Application
,	O
ROOT	O
also	O
provides	O
Cling	O
which	O
is	O
an	O
REPL	B-Application
application	O
using	O
LLVM	B-Application
's	O
Clang	B-Application
as	O
a	O
C++	B-Language
JIT	O
compilation	O
environment	O
.	O
</s>
