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lerno on Jan 25, 2022 | parent | context | favorite | on: In defense of complicated programming languages

Getting productive easily is the pretty much the definition of not having a steep learning curve. So I have difficulties making sense of your argument.

foxfluff on Jan 25, 2022 [–]

yxhuvud referred to length of the learning curve, not slope of the learning curve.

Even if getting started is easy (no steep slope), mastery can take long.

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