Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!att!osu-cis!killer!tness7!tness1!sugar!ficc!jbush From: jbush@ficc.UUCP (james bush) Newsgroups: comp.software-eng Subject: Re: Soft-Eng Digest v5n13 Summary: A good use of a finite state machine Message-ID: <976@ficc.UUCP> Date: 22 Jun 88 12:55:35 GMT References: <8806082028.AA14514@pcsc-sun.mitre.org> <5444@pucc.Princeton.EDU> Organization: Ferranti International Controls Lines: 13 In article <5444@pucc.Princeton.EDU>, EGNILGES@pucc.Princeton.EDU (Ed Nilges) writes: > ... [discussion on finite state machines] > I realize that this compressed introduction may be a bit confusing to > some. Does anybody out there want to submit a tutorial on automata, > languages, and their real-world application to this conference? I once maintained and used a couple of finite state machines acting as real-time user-input processing systems. The technique resulted in very flexable and easy-to-add-to code. -- James Bush, Ferranti, Houston Praise the Lord Internal address: jbush extension 5230, mail stop A/3204, room A/3602 External address: ..!uunet!nuchat!sugar!ficc!jbush