[osg-users] animation synchronisation

[Benjamin Eikel]

Brilliant! :-D

Douglas Osfield wrote:
> 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.
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