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by graycat 4184 days ago
You may find that, for some popular software technologies now, so far no one has organized the material into a solid tree with a trunk and a few large branches that quickly provide good paths to any of the leaves. Instead you may be looking at a noxious vine or even a patch of jungle with some poisonous plants and reptiles.
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I have definitely noticed this, which is part of the reason I haven't "dug deep" with them, and instead learn enough of it to get a job done.
It takes good effort to organize a significant body of knowledge into a tree with a few big, short branches.