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Ideal programming language for an operations researcher

No single programming language will meet every need. However, there should be a language that most operations research scientists prefer to master. I have coded different algorithms in Matlab and ...
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MATLAB vs. Python in industry

I am a beginning PhD student in math, and I would like to focus on optimization. I am learning programming for the first time, and I have written out some rudimentary optimization algorithms in both ...
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When should I use a solver for IP and MIP and can I just use a library from Python, R, Matlab, etc...?

Are there any rules of thumb for figuring out when you need to use a solver like Gurobi or CPLEX, and when you can just solve you problems directly with a Python, R, or Matlab package? Is it just a ...
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