"This was all a setup!" I hear you gasp. Yes, but we did it for good reason. Now we have a diverse set of development tools that will enable us to explore OpenCV in many contexts. Besides, it never hurts to learn something about a lot of application frameworks and to have them all set up in case someone asks us to do a project in a hurry.

Remember, James Bond has encyclopedic knowledge. In a highly symbolic conversation about rare and deadly fish, he goes toe-to-toe with Karl Stromberg, the diabolical oceanographer in the movie The Spy Who Loved Me (1977). Though we never see Bond studying fish books, he must do it as bedtime reading after the camera cuts out.

The moral is, be prepared.