State machines aren't even Turing complete. Even if they where, that doesn't mean we should be using them to program Von Neumann machines. Building levels of ab

State machines aren't even Turing complete. Even if they where, that doesn't mean we should be using them to program Von Neumann machines. Building levels of abstraction just helps you get more work done. Otherwise you might as well go back working in a tarpit (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turing_tarpit https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turing_tarpit).