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. > _______________________________________________ > osg-users mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.openscenegraph.org/listinfo.cgi/osg-users-openscenegraph.org
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