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Daily Archives: November 8, 2015

State Engines, part 1

08 Sunday Nov 2015

Posted by Wyrd Smythe in CS101

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computer, computer code, computer programming, computer science, Python code, state engine, state table

At one point in my career, the state engine (SE) was one of my favorite AWK hammers. At the time much of the work involved text processing or, in some cases, serial byte processing (which is not quite the same thing). That sort of thing is right in the wheelhouse for a state engine.

They are a very useful tool and an important part of any programmer’s toolkit.

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