[PaulHoule]

As I see it, state machines are particularly good for expressing logic in asynchronous systems. For instance in the late 1980s I wrote assembly language XMODEM implementations for the 6809 and the 80286 and since that kind of code is interrupt drive it is efficient to make a state machine that processes one character at a time. Today when you use async/await the compiler converts your code, loops and all, into a state machine.

[rhelz]

// 6809

The good old days :-)