I dont know anything about data sciences but this looks like the dilema I was into. I love making 3d graphics and I love pharo. But those two dont mix togethere. Available 3d libraries for pharo are nowhere near my needs. As an artist and coder I use Blender and its API. The Blender Api is not even in C so I can wrap it with nativeboost. Its in python. So the whole thing at first seemed too much trouble for little gain.

With the help of great pharo people I found the way to exploit Blender via sockets I can use its python API and I can do this even using pharo syntax. To my surpriseb it was easy, fast and simple.Not that I have an issue coding in python. The project is WIP but so far it has been very succesful and it can only get better.

�� 31 �� 2014 10:59 ��.��., �� "volkert@nivoba.de" <volkert@nivoba.de> ��:

Am 31.07.2014 um 09:07 schrieb Marcus Denker:

On 31 Jul 2014, at 09:00, volkert@nivoba.de wrote:

I am successful using Pharo + Roassal/Mondrian in analyzing and visualizing IT architecture models. And it is real fun. :-)

But it is always good the see, what is happening outside the "camp" ... and yes, if i find outside better solutions to
my problems i move forward ...

Why not investing into what you use now instead of abandoning it? The ��outside�� solution only is better because someone
build it. If that someone would have just moved on (��I would have done in F# but the other system was better so I moved there��),
it would not exist.

I am investing ..... but my time is limited and if i am faster the other road, i go the road ... stupid, or? Btw, that
is the reason, i am using Pharo and Roassal and i have never been so fast :-)

Everything that exists is there because someone did it.

Yes ...

But strangely, most people see the world much more passive: things are there (��ex nihilo��), to be used. Passively.

�� Marcus

My view: The evolution of mankind is about building better tools with/on top of existing tools ... we
have to choose the tools we use, to create our own tools. If Pharo and its framework/libraries matches,
to the problems i have, it is perfect ... if not, i can start to add all the missing pieces or look for better
tools ... that is the way it goes ...

BW,
Volkert