[osg-users] animation synchronisation

[Robert Osfield]

On Mon, Mar 3, 2008 at 2:32 PM, Jason Beverage <jasonbeverage at gmail.com> wrote:
> This documentation improbability drive sounds really useful, but we really
> need better documentation on it;)

Once you have it, it's self documenting.   One potential problem is
that language of documentation isn't always you're native one, or
worse still the future that its acquired the documentation from is in
your own native language has evolved beyond all recognition.

For instance the hundreds of years ago the American settlers from
Britian spoke proper English, but over time started dropping letters
from words, such as u from colour, or h from herb.  One can easily
predict from this trend that in a couple of thousand years the
American language will just be single letters, i.e. "d t m s t u"
translated into English is "does this make sense to you".    Obviously
such a terse language is also quite ambiguous as one letter can denote
thousands of actual English words, sure this might cause a bit of
confusion and misunderstanding which in term might lead to wars raging
across our galaxy and beyond, but still its a small price to pay for
progress.

Another device that might help people while they wait for the
documentation improbability drive to be developed is a code babel
fish, or CBF for short.  This type of babel fish allows you to read
C++ and actually understand it, once you can truly understand C++ it
becomes a natural language in its own right and all code becomes fully
self documenting.

Oddly enough it has been found that some humans speak C++ better than
English, these humans themselves don't need for either the
documentation improbability drive or the CBF, but any friends, family
or associates they might have then have need for the documentation
improbability drive or CBF to communicate with them.  Sometimes there
is simply no justice in this world.

Robert.