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		cbs on Sept 2, 2011 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Why Developers Never Use State Machines the resulting C code is unreadable, which turns maintenance into a nightmare. I've been doing embedded development for a few years and I love our state machines, they're a pleasure to work with. Maybe yours just sucked.

seclorum on Sept 7, 2011 [–]

I feel the same .. all my state machines are lovely. There is nothing quite so rewarding as making an:

    enum { 
        APP_START,
        APP_INIT,
        APP_DO_TASK_A,
        APP_DO ..
        APP_FREE,
        APP_QUIT
    }

.. the center of your applications world! ;)

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