On Mon, 14 Jan 2002, Cervenka, Tom wrote:

> What does a "turing machine" drawing of a web application look like?

I'm wondering if he meant finite state automaton or state diagram.  A
Turing Machine seems like overkill (plus it'd be harder to draw :-).
But Nic is a Brit after all, probably just being patriotic :-).


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Nic Ferrier [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Monday, January 14, 2002 3:23 PM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: Common Servlet-related coding/design mistakes?
>
>
> Olaf Jahn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> >   Sometimes it seems to me that programmers are completely
> >   taken in by the service() "procedure" and forget that they
> >   could use high-level objects with well-defined states at
> >   least in *their* code. As Brad Cox rightly states in
> >   http://virtualschool.edu/wap/, pages are not often
> >   considered to be first class objects.
>
> This is certainly true.
>
> I often start my design of fresh web applications by drawing a turing
> machine.

Milt Epstein
Research Programmer
Software/Systems Development Group
Computing and Communications Services Office (CCSO)
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC)
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