I've recently played with Visum Script writing from the console level. To do that I've struggled to learn python - as previously I programmed mostly in matlab. But I did it and I thought to myself that this opensource world is maybe even better than Mathworks professional computing IDE (Matlab).
In python You can have library for:
Excel Spreadsheet Writing
GUI interface with wx
Optimization
Matrix Calculation
Genetic Algs
Neuron Network
almost for everything....
but they just are.... say not fully professional.
In Matlab You may not have all this variety of modules, but You can calculate literally whatever You want, and it works, and You can be sure results is correct!
So I've just tried today to link Visum with Matlab via COM interface:
Visum=actxserver('Visum.Visum.110')
that's all that You have to do in Matlab. And now You can easily access any Visum functionality and extend it using the power of Matlab.
So now I have perfect Transport Modeling Platform with acces to infinite professional math programing interface.
No excuses from now: Yes You Can!
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