ForgettingCurve, a term coined by
OliBye to describe the experience of getting used to
VisualAge, and later
SmallTalk, and so forgetting about source files. --
SteveFreeman
I'm glad to see I'm not the only one. I can't re-adjust properly to the
JavaLanguage source code / subdirectory game. I thought I was merely going mad; it's nice to see enough other people have experienced it to give it a name. ... the name should probably end with "... syndrome", though, as in "post-... syndrome". --
AlistairCockburn
The term
ForgettingCurve immediately made sense to me, but in a different way: some things are hard to learn (steep learning curve), but once you gain a deeper understanding, easy to remember (e.g. some aspects of
CeePlusPlus); others are just as hard to learn, but more easily forgotten, because they are more arbitrary (
AccidentalComplexity). --
FalkBruegmann
Like
EmacsEditor (much as I love it) key combinations? -- SF
I'd forgotten about this --
OliBye