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froh 44 days ago | parent | context | favorite | on: Statecharts: hierarchical state machines

finite 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 44 days ago [–]

Well, 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.

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