From owner-freebsd-chat Fri Aug 27 19:15: 8 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from pop3-3.enteract.com (pop3-3.enteract.com [207.229.143.32]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id CFCB214F88 for ; Fri, 27 Aug 1999 19:15:06 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dscheidt@enteract.com) Received: (qmail 28831 invoked from network); 28 Aug 1999 02:15:03 -0000 Received: from shell-2.enteract.com (dscheidt@207.229.143.41) by pop3-3.enteract.com with SMTP; 28 Aug 1999 02:15:03 -0000 Date: Fri, 27 Aug 1999 21:15:03 -0500 (CDT) From: David Scheidt To: Craig Harding Cc: chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Learning curves (was Re: Newbee) In-Reply-To: <19990828012049.C156614D54@hub.freebsd.org> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Sat, 28 Aug 1999, Craig Harding wrote: > I can't prove it, but I suspect steep=hard has been in use in the > computer industry for far longer than in the CEF example you gave > (where the earliest paper that defined the terminology was published > in 1990). I suspect so, since you tend to think steep means hard. A steep hill is hard to climb. However, what little mathmatican is in me cringes at the normal usage, because it confounds domain and range. I like to look at graphs and understand what they mean. When you put time one th Y-axis, you make it harder for me, and I suspect many others, to do that. It is only a convention, but it is pretty deep-seated. David scheidt To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message