I don't agree that the conclusion to be drawn from that article is that FSMs can be at most an educational exercise - quite the opposite. He argues at the start that no-one would ever retrofit a FSM to existing code, but then describes a case where they did exactly that (albeit painfully) and said it was great. He seems to be arguing quite the opposite - that we should be using state machines more.
I've used them a lot, although mostly in "classical" applications like lexing and parsing. But I've used them occasionally for logic too, and it's always worked very well. I'm not a web developer but it definitely seems like they would be excellent for modelling webapp state. Zed Shaw has a great article about specifying servers with state charts here: http://zedshaw.com/archive/ragel-state-charts/. For those interested in FSMs, Ragel is definitely worth a look, it's a really lovely piece of software. On 18 May 2015 at 10:44, Marc Fawzi <[email protected]> wrote: > Not "stop" but just consider the reality of it in the general case. I just > found that Unity3D had many FSM tools as plugins and they are very popular > for game AI along with behavior trees etc. > > Sent from my iPhone > > > On May 17, 2015, at 2:50 PM, Dave Sann <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > The conclusion at the end of his article is very different from the > catch-22 suggested to stop people using this at the beginning > > > > Dave > > > > -- > > Note that posts from new members are moderated - please be patient with > your first post. > > --- > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups "ClojureScript" group. > > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send > an email to [email protected]. > > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/clojurescript. > > -- > Note that posts from new members are moderated - please be patient with > your first post. > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "ClojureScript" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/clojurescript. > -- Note that posts from new members are moderated - please be patient with your first post. --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "ClojureScript" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/clojurescript.
