Christopher Smith wrote: > Gabriel Sechan wrote: >.. >> There's a reason why the most common design in electrical engineering >> is the state machine- its simple, it works well, and it turns hard to >> impossible problems into easily solved ones. >> > Yes, state machines are great. They make all problems easy, particularly > if you have billions of states with concurrent state transition events, > guarantees about isolation, state distributed across a WAN with > thousands of nodes, etc. It makes it so trivial to fully validate a > system. ;-) Furthermore, it's great that most programs tend to add > additional states that are otherwise unnecessary for solving a problem, > because that NEVER introduces new bugs or synchronization points. ;-)
Would it maybe be worth considering an LPSG presentation (or two) on state-machine concepts (perhaps just an overview). Regards, ..jim -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-lpsg
