Nov 17, 2015 Professor Brian Kernighan presents on 'How to succeed in language design without really trying.' Brian Kernighan is Professor of Computer Science at Princeton University and Honorary Professor in the School of Computer Science at The University of Nottingham.
Basically, Kernighan says:
- GAMS is terrible (somewhat of a side note). This makes some sense: that opinion was probably the reason to develop AMPL in the first place (if he thought GAMS was terrific, why develop AMPL).
- Original declarative AMPL i.e. the part he worked on: good.
- Later procedural facilities in AMPL (he was not involved in that): bad. (IMHO practical modeling often needs some procedural support; this is one of the reasons why modeling tools embedded in Python are popular).
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