A programming language is designed to describe a set of consecutive actions executed by a computer. A programming language is, therefore, a practical way for us humans to give instructions to a ...

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 ...