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Re:Why Developers Never Use State Machines (2011) by pdelbarba on Monday February 26, 2018 @11:14PM (#16471030)
Similarly with embedded development. We use them for just about everything from communications to scheduling. I think the subtext here is that state machines are just rarely used for web/mobile...
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Re:Why Developers Never Use State Machines (2011) by vvanders on Tuesday February 27, 2018 @12:23AM (#16471265)
Yup, I'm in the middle of writing a packet radio protocol and it's mostly just nested state machines.
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Re:Why Developers Never Use State Machines (2011) by DCoder on Monday February 26, 2018 @11:43PM (#16471121)
One simplistic state machine in web/mobile is mouse/swipe motion handling – mousedown transitions into "in motion" state, mousemove tracks that state, mouseup transitions into "finished motion" state, runs event handlers, and transitions again into "idle" state.
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