State Machines

For the past couple weeks I've been occasionally working on a piece which started out about bunches of state machines. It has turned into a long and rambling post weaving many threads from my recent and distant past.

• State Machines at PlanetCAD
• State Machines and Tango
• State Machines and Agile Software Development
• State Machines and Ace
• On Lisp a slight diversion
• State Machines and bOP
• State Machines, JavaServer Faces, bOP, and Rethinking the V in MVC
• On Lisp: beyond state machines
• State Machines described and a few examples
• Perl state machine to scrape HTML
• FSM kitchen sink: workflows, pipelines, asynchrony, SOAs
• State Machines and Business Process and Workflow