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		paulgb on May 13, 2019 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Ask HN: What overlooked class of tools should a se... State machines. They can be a helpful abstraction for UI or business logic, and they also make regular expressions make a lot more sense.

jimpudar on May 13, 2019 [–]

Yeah, far too often people create horrific spaghetti code of if/else statements which could be neatly coded as a state machine. This is a very important concept to grasp.

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