Re: RFC: REST-RPC: learning curves

Hi.

I pressed send and then looked it up, most likely not the ideal order of  
operations :)

I did outline common usage and it's amazing how common that has become,  
especially because I very quickly eliminated every way I could think of to  
plot a graph that would correspond to conventional usage.

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On Fri, 03 Mar 2006 15:13:07 -0800, <[email protected]> wrote:

>> A steep learning curve means takes a long time to become productive.
>> A shallow learning curve means can get started very quickly.
>
> That's common misusage, but how does that make any sense?  What curve do
> you think it refers to?
>
> If you look at the origin of the term, in industrial engineering,
> you'll see that the curve is the graph I described.  It tends to be a
> hyperbola, starting off vertical and ending up horizontal.
>
> I believe "steep learning curve" got to be misused that way by people
> who heard the term, had no idea what curve it referred to, and the
> word "steep" brought to mind an image of someone climbing a steep
> hill or paying a "steep" price for something.
>



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