Mark Kent <mark.kent@xxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
> Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> espoused:
>> ____/ Thufir on Monday 07 January 2008 05:39 : \____
>>
>>> On Sat, 05 Jan 2008 16:57:22 +0000, Roy Schestowitz wrote:
>>>
>>>> The same goes for tin/vi/slrn and other programs with a relatively steep
>>>> learning curve (and high gains),
>>>
>>>
>>> Nothing is free -- there's a price to pay for those high gains. That's
>>> the downside of a steep learning curve, in that much must be learned up
>>> front.
>>
>> That's GNU/Linux to many people. :-)
>>
>
> You still have the curve the wrong way around. A steep learning curve
> means that a user will become productive very quickly, but conversely,
> can also suggest that more challenging functions might be very very
> difficult to understand. A shallow learning curve means that it takes a
> long time to become similarly productive, but conversely, that in the
> long-run, the user is likely to be far more capable.
Technically, or rather historically, you are right.
In the accepted usage in this day and age you would confuse people.
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