From: Dirk Thierbach Date: 2006-03-23T16:43:52+09:00 Subject: Re: Programming challenge: wildcard exclusion in cartesian products wkehowski@cox.net wrote: > What are some good references for finite state machines? Minimization? A classic is "Introduction to automata theory, languages and computation" by Hopcroft and Ullman. But any other book about finite state machines should cover these topics, too. There are good chances that you can just google for a detailed explanation. - Dirk