Re: [OT] "steep learning curve" ... but what is it actually?

2017-08-08 Thread Tony Mechelynck
On Tue, Aug 8, 2017 at 11:10 PM, Ben Fritz wrote: [...] > It's not that you're *able* to learn a lot quickly, it's that you're *forced* > to learn so much before becoming productive, that makes a "steep leaning > curve" into a negative. At least Vim has one of the best

Re: [OT] "steep learning curve" ... but what is it actually?

2017-08-08 Thread Ben Fritz
On Sunday, July 30, 2017 at 2:10:44 AM UTC-5, tu...@posteo.de wrote: > > Suppose this "steep learning curve" would be a graph > in the mathematical sense -- I would think, that > the X-axis represents t (time) and the Y-axis represents > the amount of knowledge k in turn. > > With this setuo a

Re: [OT] "steep learning curve" ... but what is it actually?

2017-08-05 Thread Xavier Noria
Vim has a steep learning curve simply because Vim does a lot. As a metric, https://vimhelp.appspot.com/#reference_toc is huge. In some conferences I have seen the speaker ask "what is ";" for?" Nobody knows, maybe a couple hands raised. The audience may know :wq, and fugitive, but they have

Re: [OT] "steep learning curve" ... but what is it actually?

2017-07-30 Thread Tony Mechelynck
I think the learning curve is said to be steep by comparison with an uphill path. So x would be how far you get and y would be the amount of expended effort. But does Vim really have a steep learning curve? IMHO what it has is a virtually unlimited set of capabilities — considering that it has a

Re: [OT] "steep learning curve" ... but what is it actually?

2017-07-30 Thread arocker
> On 2017-07-30 09:10, tu...@posteo.de wrote: >> Suppose this "steep learning curve" would be a graph >> in the mathematical sense -- I would think, that >> the X-axis represents t (time) and the Y-axis represents >> the amount of knowledge k in turn. > Really, the cliche's the wrong way around.

Re: [OT] "steep learning curve" ... but what is it actually?

2017-07-30 Thread Tim Chase
On 2017-07-30 09:10, tu...@posteo.de wrote: > Suppose this "steep learning curve" would be a graph > in the mathematical sense -- I would think, that > the X-axis represents t (time) and the Y-axis represents > the amount of knowledge k in turn. I think the confusion comes because it seems to be

[OT] "steep learning curve" ... but what is it actually?

2017-07-30 Thread tuxic
Hi, Often it i said, vim would have a steep learning curve... If I think aboyt a "steep learning curve" as such in a more mathematical sense...I dont understand this argument for being a negative one. Suppose this "steep learning curve" would be a graph in the mathematical sense -- I would