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Physics Analysis Workstation

Physics Analysis Workstation
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PAW - sample code output
Original author(s) CERN
Initial release 1986; 31 years ago (1986)
Stable release
2.13/08 / September 16, 2002; 14 years ago (2002-09-16)
Type Particle physics
License GNU GPL
Website cern.ch/paw/

The Physics Analysis Workstation (PAW) is an interactive, scriptable computer software tool for data analysis and graphical presentation in High Energy Physics (HEP).

The development of this software tool started at CERN in 1986, it was optimized for the processing very large amounts of data. It was based on and intended for inter-operation with components of CERNLIB, an extensive collection of Fortran libraries.

PAW has been a standard tool in high energy physics for decades, yet is essentially unmaintained. Despite continuing popularity as of 2008, it has recently been losing ground to the C++-based ROOT package.

PAW uses its own scripting language. Here's a sample code (with its actual output), which can be used to plot data gathered in files.


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