Microsoft Solver Foundation: OML

I have now been playing a bit with the Microsoft Modeling Language. It is really amazingly simple, and the integration with Excel is very interesting. 

Of course we miss a number of things like data manipulation, loops, checks etc.  Also there are still a few bugs, but this is a beta. Some syntax is somewhat surprising. E.g. {i,1,4} means i=1,2,3. It is better to make all arrays zero based. In that case one can use e.g. Sum[{i,N},x[i]] as the default lower limit in a sum is zero (i.e. {i,N} is the same as {i,0,N}, or i=0,..,N-1).

The next screen shot illustrates all these points.

With a little UI: