Do other Python GUI toolkits require this?

Antoon Pardon apardon at forel.vub.ac.be
Fri Apr 20 08:32:19 EDT 2007


On 2007-04-20, Paul Boddie <paul at boddie.org.uk> wrote:
> On 20 Apr, 09:21, Antoon Pardon <apar... at forel.vub.ac.be> 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



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