I remember when ROOT came out. I remember downloading it, going through it a bit, and wondering why anyone would leave PAW for it. To this day, I think PAW is p

I remember when ROOT came out. I remember downloading it, going through it a bit, and wondering why anyone would leave PAW for it. To this day, I think PAW is probably a superior system and the ROOT project is best considered an expensive failure. The one guy doing C++ (on a different experiment) skipped ROOT entirely and used Python to orchestrate C++ code.