On Mon, Mar 3, 2008 at 2:32 PM, Jason Beverage <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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. _______________________________________________ osg-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openscenegraph.org/listinfo.cgi/osg-users-openscenegraph.org
