[FredZarguna]

A key advantage is that it has a nice, shallow learning curve.

This, like "I could care less" instead of "I couldn't care less." is said by people all the time and is actually the opposite of what you mean.

The learning curve is a graph of knowledge acquired vs. time. A "nice" learning curve is steep. A shallow learning curve means you've have been working a very long time and have not acquired very much knowledge.

Tonight's Pedantic Momement^TM has been broguht to you by Bristol-Meyers.

[OneWingedShark]

This, like "I could care less" instead of "I couldn't care less." is said by people all the time and is actually the opposite of what you mean.

The learning curve is a graph of knowledge acquired vs. time. A "nice" learning curve is steep. A shallow learning curve means you've have been working a very long time and have not acquired very much knowledge.

Tonight's Pedantic MomementTM has been broguht to you by Bristol-Meyers.

Or, instead of time it could be "effort/work" (thus payoff vs. effort) and in this case there's a radically different meaning -- indeed it would be [roughly] the transposition of the X and Y coordinates in the aforementioned "knowledge vs. time" (it would be exact iff the ratio of work to time was fixed).

[dangus]

Hrm... I thought the point is that you didn’t need to acquire much learning to be able to get started.