Learning curves are not culture-free; they are specific to a person and his or her experience. What you find easy and congenial I may find difficult and disagreeable.
It is possible to teach able people abstractions that make learning a new instance of some class of formalisms, statement-level programming languages say, easy; but that is another matter. On 2/19/12, zMan <zedgarhoo...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Fri, Feb 17, 2012 at 11:16 AM, Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.) > <shmuel+ibm-m...@patriot.net> wrote: >> In <1329430553.61141.yahoomail...@web164510.mail.gq1.yahoo.com>, on >> 02/16/2012 >> at 02:15 PM, Scott Ford <scott_j_f...@yahoo.com> said: >> >>>I loved VM/CMS and like Linux really well, close my eyes they are >>>kissing cousins.... >> >> ? >> >> I don't see any point of similarity. Not the API, not the file system, >> not the shells. > > Then you've forgotten the learning curve: > CMS <-> *IX: minimal > CMS <-> TSO: moderate > CMS <-> GUI: Large > -- > zMan -- "I've got a mainframe and I'm not afraid to use it" > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN > -- John Gilmore, Ashland, MA 01721 - USA ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
