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theatrus2 on Feb 27, 2018 | parent | context | favorite | on: Why Developers Never Use State Machines (2011)

Developers use state machines a lot more than they would admit to. Often code would be more readable if the state machine was succinctly defined.

nathanyo on Feb 27, 2018 [–]

There's a lot of truth to this statement in my experience. I just finished rewriting my homework for my operating systems course and the first version looks awful compared to when I rewrote a chunk of it as a state machine

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