Thread: Re: [HACKERS] web-based front end development

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

>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.)
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