gsl optimization routines

[Brian Gough]

Dan, Ho-Jin writes:
 > Okay, I'll figure out the gsl stucture, check reusable functions and survey
 > recently published papers. First of all, nonlinear programming(NP) will
 > be focused on with a dense storage(small to medium size problems), and,
 > if needed, linear programming(LP) will be implemented. actually, I am
 > not interested in LP since the research area of mine is the structural 
 > optimization.

Yes, routines for nonlinear programming are needed.  For linear
programming there is an excellent GNU package already called GLPK (GNU
Linear Programming Kit) written by Andrew Makhorin which people can
use.

Brian