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guys, i think the parent makes more sense if you qualify as

state machines suck if: - the problem isn't inherently stateful - the stateful code is not carefully written

i think the problem is as the OP dscribes: people often write stateful code without realizing it, thus the code doesn't show explicit understanding the combinatorical number of state transitions and all the possible edge case bugs.




But that just reduces to sucky code sucks and doesn't say anything meaningful about state machines.




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