On 2007-04-20, Paul Boddie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 20 Apr, 09:21, Antoon Pardon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> Indeed I have no wish to bow before common usage. > > Then nobody will understand you properly if you start referring to a > "steep learning curve" when in their terminology you actually mean a > "shallow learning curve". Certainly, this discussion has alerted me to > a level of ambiguity with the term that would dissuade me from using > it, but then it's a hand-waving kind of term, anyway, which would be > better replaced with a proper description of whatever effect is > supposed to be observable.
Well that I made some people aware was all I intended. Personaly I don't use the term either unless I have an actual curve to show which I can use to explain how to interpret it. -- Antoon Pardon -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
