What programming language should I use to solve linear programming problems?

Question

What programming language should I use to solve linear programming problems?

Answer 1

Yahoo doesn't allow such long posts (echo 'x' is a lot of lines in assembly), but try doing a web search.

Answer 2

Have you looked into libraries such as GLPK (http://winglpk.sourceforge.net/)? There are other packages available out there such as GIPALS32 (http://www.optimalon.com/product_gipals32.htm) both free and commercial packages. Most of these libraries will be written in C but they can be called from your existing code. These libraries are also generally optimized already.

Answer 3

Matlab would probably be the closest thing to where you would describe what you want the program to do and let it figure out how to actually do it. Is what you're trying to figure out predominantly mathematical? Another option to consider is Mathematica. It's kind of a competitor to Matlab.



Anything like C#, C++, etc will require you to program the algorithm.



Also, it would depend upon what your I/O requirements are. You say you've got requirements, but don't indicate what your I/O is. Are you wanting it to read voltages from an A/D and output voltages through a DAC? Reading/writing values to/from a file? Are these parameters going to be coming in over the network? Again, depending upon where the data is coming from and going to could also potentially influence what system you use.



Is this something you're only going to run once, then once you have the answers, you're done with it? Or is this something that's going to be run over and over again? Is it time critical (i.e. does it need to be real time)?