Remove Game Physics from table of Abbreviations

[janim2-2004]

The Abbreviations and Acronyms table has Game Physics listed. Currently it is shown as:

I believe this is unnecessary for 2 reasons;

• as mentioned in Remove unnecessary 'the' from purpose of Documents #3491 the term 'game physics library' should not exist, as we don't specify that for other examples.
• Game Physics is neither and abbreviation or acronym.

[samm82]

I made a comment here that I won't repeat, but as far as your first reason, I'm not sure if that is a valid reason. If the full name of the Projectile program is "Projectile", then it doesn't have an abbreviation (unless we want to use "Proj" or something later 😅). However, since "the Game Physics Library" is a bit long, it makes sense for it to have an abbreviation ("GamePhysics").

[janim2-2004]

If we are planning to use "the Game Physics Library" for our final progName it make sense to keep the abbreviation, but I will wait till after the meeting to close this issue.

[smiths]

Although awkward, Game Physics Library can be the name of the game physics library. It is fairly common for the term library to be in the name of a library. For instance, netlib and GSL (Gnu Scientific Library) have the name library in their names. People talk about the netlib library and the GSL library. It is redundant, but it is still common practice.

I think the root cause of the problem is the poor name of the Game Physics Library. If we called had an abbreviation GPL, I think we could get rid of the problems? "The primary purpose of this document is to record the requirements of GPL" doesn't sound awkward. We would also have an abbreviation for the table of abbreviations. 😄

[samm82]

People talk about the netlib library and the GSL library. It is redundant, but it is still common practice.

Oh no, RAS syndrome is spreading!

[smiths]

Another example similar to RAS comes from @JacquesCarette 's favourite movie where they talk about the redundancy of saying chai tea. 😄