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From: Stan Kerr
Date: Thu, 17 Dec 1992 16:53

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bvaddi@eng.auburn.edu (Bala V. Vaddi) writes:


>Instead buy GAMS. It comes with MINOS and lots of other packages. Further it is a 4GL language, i.e. easy to use.

That may be, but the GAMS language is quite limited in the types of nonlinear
functions it can express. There are still excellent reasons for getting
MINOS independently and using good old Fortran. GAMS shines only in its
ability to make a model intelligible and maintainable.
-- 

Stan Kerr    
Computing & Communications Services Office, U of Illinois/Urbana
Phone: 217-333-5217  Email: stankerr@uiuc.edu

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