We’ve reinvented the wheel because CS education is really bad at teaching what computation actually is. Then, if you did not study CS (which I did not so I know

We’ve reinvented the wheel because CS education is really bad at teaching what computation actually is. Then, if you did not study CS (which I did not so I know), you’re really on your own for figuring out what the heck you’re actually doing when you program. There are some very simple and elegant concepts at the bottom of the chain that are really useful to understand, and state machines are for sure one of them. Even with state machines, people often dislike talking about them because they’re seen as impractical since they don’t always have a great correspondence to code. But computation is more than just code.