> -----Original Message----- > From: John Carter [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Thursday, 11 September 2008 12:05 p.m. > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: OT: Happy Millionth Moore Day to Me! > > > On Thu, 11 Sep 2008, Steve Holdoway wrote: > > > But don't you miss Fortran 2 - computed gotos, no block ifs? I once > >wrote a little program to number my punched cards in cols 73-80 with > >the first 4 letters of the function and then a number. I got smacked > >when the function in question was called analysis... > > "State Machines" are the embedded development flavour of the month? > year? (god forbid) decade? but are nothing more than multi-threaded > tangle of computed goto's with a roll your own scheduler in drag. :-)) >
Embedded developers have realised it is the way to avoid most of the evils spagetti code and why Control Data Corp has implemeted state machines in hardware & AMD2900 microcode for the CDC480(AN/AYK-480) over 20years ago, and I have been using state machines in industrial automation for 20 years. The CDC480 (AN/AYK-480) was the US Navy standard airbourne computer from the mid 70's used in F16 F18 and NZ Orions Maurice
