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1. Re: [HACKERS] web-based front end development

   Michael Robinson <robinson@netrinsics.com> — 1999-07-30T05:57:57Z

   Lamar Owen <lamar.owen@wgcr.org> writes:
   >The learning curve is surprising shallow, with any experienced
        ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
   >programmer taking maybe a day or so to get up to speed on AOLserver's
   >dialect of tk-less tcl.  I have run this system for over two years, and
   >it works very well.
   
   Michael Alan Dorman <mdorman-pgsql.hackers@debian.org> writes:
   >If you have to learn a whole new language, you're probably going to
   >have a steeper learning curve.
                   ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
   
   What is a learning curve?
   
   	-Michael Robinson
   
   
   

2. Re: [HACKERS] web-based front end development

   D. Jay Newman <jay@sprucegrove.com> — 1999-07-30T12:29:05Z

   >What is a learning curve?
   
   The basic term for how long it takes to become proficient at a task.
   It's a curve because if you graph days studied vs. proficiency it goes
   up in a curve slowing down as you become closer to your optimal
   proficiency.
   
   (There are actually *three* learning curves associated with any task,
   think of them as "beginning", "intermediate", and "expert"; but most
   people just think of it as a single curve and that does alright as a
   simplification.)
   -- 
   D. Jay Newman                   ! For the pleasure and the profit it derives
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