On Tue, Aug 8, 2017 at 11:10 PM, Ben Fritz wrote:
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> It's not that you're *able* to learn a lot quickly, it's that you're *forced*
> to learn so much before becoming productive, that makes a "steep leaning
> curve" into a negative.
At least Vim has one of the best documentations that I've
On Sunday, July 30, 2017 at 2:10:44 AM UTC-5, tu...@posteo.de wrote:
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> Suppose this "steep learning curve" would be a graph
> in the mathematical sense -- I would think, that
> the X-axis represents t (time) and the Y-axis represents
> the amount of knowledge k in turn.
>
> With this setuo a st
Vim has a steep learning curve simply because Vim does a lot. As a metric,
https://vimhelp.appspot.com/#reference_toc
is huge. In some conferences I have seen the speaker ask "what is ";" for?"
Nobody knows, maybe a couple hands raised. The audience may know :wq, and
fugitive, but they have n
I think the learning curve is said to be steep by comparison with an
uphill path. So x would be how far you get and y would be the amount
of expended effort.
But does Vim really have a steep learning curve? IMHO what it has is a
virtually unlimited set of capabilities — considering that it has a
T
> On 2017-07-30 09:10, tu...@posteo.de wrote:
>> Suppose this "steep learning curve" would be a graph
>> in the mathematical sense -- I would think, that
>> the X-axis represents t (time) and the Y-axis represents
>> the amount of knowledge k in turn.
>
Really, the cliche's the wrong way around. I
On 2017-07-30 09:10, tu...@posteo.de wrote:
> Suppose this "steep learning curve" would be a graph
> in the mathematical sense -- I would think, that
> the X-axis represents t (time) and the Y-axis represents
> the amount of knowledge k in turn.
I think the confusion comes because it seems to be a
