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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
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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
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