From: Eivind Eklund <eeklund@...>
Date: 2004-11-04T01:34:18+09:00
Subject: Re: fsmgen 0.1

On Wed, 3 Nov 2004 05:53:48 +0900, Mark Probert <probertm@nospam-acm.org> wrote:
> Hi, all.
> 
> I am pleased to announce the release of fsmgen.  This is a class library
> and generator for creating simple finite state machine.  The application
> is to make simple TCP / UDP servers easy to write.  This is done using a
> YAML file to define the server and then using a generator to create a
> default server and client template.  These templates are then modified to
> add "real" responses, rather than the default of sending strings back.
> 
> An example of a simple config file is:

Wouldn't this be better implemented as meta-programming in Ruby, so
you don't generate Ruby code from it once - that's just
meta-programmed every time you execute the program?  It would seem to
be easier to modify things that way (for the case where the initial
state machine wasn't quite right, something I find to happen about 9
times out of 10).

Apart from that, I like that you're helping abstract state machines -
too often, they end up non-normalized and buried.

Eivind.
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