In theory yes, in practice I'm not so sure: I've seen state machine implementations which were ten times more code than the few if/else/for loop needed. Sure y

In theory yes, in practice I'm not so sure: I've seen state machine implementations which were ten times more code than the few if/else/for loop needed. Sure you can draw a pretty state machine diagram, but is the code really easier to read and maintain? I'm not sure.