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Perhaps, but I object to the "machine" phrasing. Ordinary finite state "machines" (without hierarchy) aren't machines either, they are just diagrams of somethin
by cubefox 6mo ago
Perhaps, but I object to the "machine" phrasing. Ordinary finite state "machines" (without hierarchy) aren't machines either, they are just diagrams of something that could be a machine or something else.
- embedding-shape 6mo agoThey're diagrams of something that does something, otherwise it's just a rectangle. And once it does something, isn't that kind of an abstract machine anyways?
- cubefox 6mo agoIt could describe some arbitrary process that doesn't involve machines. E.g. "how to get married"
- froh 6mo agofinite state machine (FSM) state charts (FSM with history pointers) pushdown automaton (FSM with a stack) turing machine (FSM with a tape) the terminology is well established.
- cubefox 6mo agoWell, the word "machine" by itself is even more established, and it isn't compatible with describing diagrams (that routinely don't represent machines) as machines.