At a high level, the difference between a compiled and interpreted language is that an interpreted language is compiled into an intermediary form and not machine code. Compiled code can run faster, ...

In our look at scientific computing and the continued longevity of Fortran in science and engineering circles, one of the recurring themes in the discussion that followed was performance. One of the ...

I was thinking about writing a REALLY simple script to count out the number of characters in a text file, to any given point in the file (how much of the text is in the first x# of characters, etc). I ...