Hi Juan, you might have a look to PolyMath: https://github.com/PolyMathOrg/PolyMath
We are trying to build something equivalent to pandas et other scientific libraries in Python. Arms to help us are welcome ;-) Regards, On Mon, 16 Jan 2023 at 04:10, Juan Cruz <juan.c...@outlook.com> wrote: > Hi, > Thanks for your response. The size of datasets is not an issue, but my > intention is not to bridge to Python. The reason behind the question is > that (and sorry for those who love it) I think Python is an ugly language. > It's very powerful due to its libraries: Yes. But as a language, I find it > ugly and not very expressive. Besides, the fact that indentation has syntax > meaning is really annoying. > I tried Haskell, beautiful. Also Closure and Ruby. Love those. But > Smalltalk caught my attention as I read in different sources that it was > actively used in the financial industry, so I figure out that there were > some advanced libraries out there...Probably they exist and are proprietary > or secret haha. > Thanks so much I will keep toying with Pharo, these days have been really > fun. It is really fun to code in Pharo...and easy!! > No need to set up environments, select editors, plugins, or > debuggers..it´s all there! > Have a great Sunday > Juan P. Cruz > > ------------------------------ > *From:* Jupiter Jones <jupiter.jo...@mail.com> > *Sent:* Sunday, January 15, 2023 3:20 AM > *To:* Any question about pharo is welcome <pharo-users@lists.pharo.org> > *Subject:* [Pharo-users] Re: New to Pharo: Some questions > > This may seem a little over simplistic, but the basics of what NumPy and > Pandas offer can be achieved with the standard Smalltalk collection > hierarchy. If your data fits in memory, then Pharo will handle the job. If > not, then GemStone may do the trick. > > That said, there’s a bunch of quite specialised stuff in those libraries, > some of which is not trivial to implement. Or you may have gigantic > existing datasets that you want to leverage. So you can always call the > python libraries directly from Smalltalk using the PythonBridge [1]. It’s > been a long time since I’ve used it, so hopefully someone else can let you > know if it’s still well maintained. > > There are a bunch of options for plotting. Maybe start by checking out > Roassal [2]. > > You may even want to check out Glamorous Toolkit [3]. It may change your > life ;) > > [1] https://objectprofile.github.io/PythonBridge/ > [2] http://agilevisualization.com > [3] https://gtoolkit.com > > > On 15 Jan 2023, at 12:10 pm, Juan Cruz <juan.c...@outlook.com> wrote: > > Hello, > I hope everyone is doing well. I am new to Pharo but not to programming. I > have a background in Python, and Javascript mostly. I mostly use Python due > to the data, plotting, and math libraries. > But after toying a little with Pharo, the language I came to appreciate > its beauty of it and how expressive the language is. > I was wondering if there are libraries equivalent to Matplotlib, Pandas, > Numpy, etc. I mostly apply Python to finance -in particular to quantitative > finance. > I read somewhere that top investment banks use Smalltalk as their secret > weapon, so I'm sure that there are some users that have some insights to > share on this subject. > Thanks to all and all the best for this 2023. > Greetings > Juan P. Cruz > > > -- Serge Stinckwic h https://twitter.com/SergeStinckwich
