[Coin-discuss] AMPL or GAMS?

[Mario Rappi]

I am new to COIN-OR and to the list (hopefully this is the right list to use
for my question).
I want to start using the solvers from NEOS and am wondering whether I
should start writing in AMPL or GAMS.
I have had some experience with LINGO and OPL-IDE but I am not a programmer,
just an analyst.
If I had to start developing skills with one, AMPL or GAMS, which one would
you recommend, based on user-friendliness, potential, power, solver
availability, more used, documentation, etc?
Also, will the free version for any of the two let me compile/debug a
problem of unlimited size (I can see they will only let me solve a
limited-size problem?

Many thanks in advance.

Mario
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