Nothing much to do with Macro Scheduler this except that it finds me sitting in an office in Geneva today. 100 meters beneath me, under the ground, is a circular tunnel 35m wide, 55m tall and 27 km long. It goes right underneath houses and offices in the city of Geneva and surrounding areas. Sandwiched between Lake Geneva and the mountains is the largest particle accelerator in the world, run by CERN, where Tim Berners Lee invented the World Wide Web. Next year they will accelerate protons around this tunnel and smash them together to create conditions similar to those that existed just after the Big Bang. They’re looking to prove the existence of a particle called the Higgs Boson, which is believed to provide matter its mass.
If you think you’ve created long scripts in Macro Scheduler you should see the software they’re creating at CERN to configure and measure the results from the particle accelerator. A friend of mine is debugging this C++ code right now and he says it takes 30-40 minutes to compile! That’s a lot of code. Think about that next time you’re debugging a script! 🙂
