Date: Fri, 27 Aug 1999 21:15:03 -0500 (CDT) From: David Scheidt <dscheidt@enteract.com> To: Craig Harding <crh@outpost.co.nz> Cc: chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Learning curves (was Re: Newbee) Message-ID: <Pine.NEB.3.96.990827211028.76059A-100000@shell-2.enteract.com> In-Reply-To: <19990828012049.C156614D54@hub.freebsd.org>
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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
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