[Coin-discuss] Re: PROJECT PROPOSAL: graphical user interface for some COIN packages

[Michael Hennebry]

On Thu, 23 Jun 2005, Joseph Young wrote:

> 	A big issue will be finding or developing a good modelling
> language.  Most of the nice OR packages support modelling languages such
> as AIMMS, GAMS, AMPL, or Xpress-Mosel.  Unless these languages are
> released under a CPL compatible license, there may be issues integrating
> it with COIN for general public release.  The GNU MathProg language should
> be open, so I'd suggest looking at that.

A reason that I almost always use an API without a modelling
language is that if I don't assign index numbers myself,
I don't know how to interpret them while my program is running.

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Mike   hennebry at web.cs.ndsu.NoDak.edu
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those who can count and those who can't."