Re: What languages have huge standard libraries?


"Mike" <m.fee@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> In article <OxRef.15479$D13.3287@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
adaworks@xxxxxxxxxxxxx says...
> >
> > "EventHelix.com" <eventhelix@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> > > C++, Java and C# have really large standard libraries. The main
> > > disadvantage of the large library is that you have steep learning
> > > curve. However, once you master the library, you can be really
> > > productive.
> > >
> > Steep learning curve is good. Steep, in this case does not mean
> > the same as climbing a hill, which is certainly slow going when it
> > is steep. Rather, it is mathematical concept from educational
> > pychology.
> >
> > Think of learning curve on a two-dimensional graph. The x axis
> > is time and the y axis is knowledge. Therefore, you are learning a
> > lot in a short period of time with a steep learning curve. A shallow
> > learning curve means it takes a long time to learn enough
> > about a language to use it effectively.
> >
> Only if you assume that time is plotted along the horizontal axis.
>
In the educational pyschology model, where the concept of learning
curve originated, time is the horizontal axis. What else do you plan
to put on that axis? You can certainly develop a non-standard
graph, but that does not change the fact that the conventional learning
curve is knowledge on the y axis and time is on the x axis. If one intends
to convey some non-conventional meaning to a term, then it is important
to state the nature of the model so others will understand the intent of
that non-conventional model.

I realize that, under the folklore model, "steep" means difficult. However,
under the mathematical model, steep means just the opposite. If one
prefers folklore to mathematics, so be it.

Richard Riehle


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