[Coin-discuss] Open-source Modeling Languages

[Michael Hennebry]

On Tue, 20 Nov 2007, Brian Borchers wrote:

> First, although many normal users produce models using a modeling
> language like AMPL, many other other users produce their problem
> instances using conventional programming languages like C.

Yup.  Some of us write programs that do things like this:
read data
generate problem
while(1) {
    solve problem
    if done break
    use solve output to edit problem
}
print result

The edit problem part can be hard with modeling language.

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