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Re:IPLANG – an optimization-based language by scottfr on Saturday May 31, 2014 @11:30PM (#7828059)
For those looking for examples of actually used languages designed specifically for optimization problems, there are several out there.

AMPL is one such language [1]

[1] http://www.ampl.com/EXAMPLES/

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Re:IPLANG – an optimization-based language by idunning on Sunday June 01, 2014 @01:34AM (#7828267)
The language I used, JuMP [1], is quite similar to AMPL. In fact in [2] we do performance comparisons with it. Check it out if you have a chance.

[1] https://github.com/JuliaOpt/JuMP.jl

[2] http://arxiv.org/abs/1312.1431

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