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From: Dennis Lee Bieber <wlfraed@ix.netcom.com>
Subject: Re: Beginning Ada Programming, by Andrew T. Shvets (2020)
Date: Fri, 24 Apr 2020 11:35:40 -0400
Date: 2020-04-24T11:35:40-04:00	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4k16af91h8tr4vff14pq3paljjom9ginl5@4ax.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: f6bca4b1-44c0-4a25-bf10-00ebb069a100@googlegroups.com

On Fri, 24 Apr 2020 07:42:37 -0700 (PDT), Optikos
<ZUERCHER_Andreas@outlook.com> declaimed the following:


>
>And there might be a 3rd distinct category of beginner:  those that yearn to see the world as Mealy or Moore state machines and get frustrated that neither imperative nor functional programming languages put finite state machines as the true 1st-class citizens and everything else as cascading-ramification details hanging off as ornaments from an FSM Christmas tree.  This group of beginner gets frustrated and stays frustrated for an extended time (as they muddle through 

	In my college, state machines weren't considered something for a
language class -- they were part of the (nominally) language independent
/algorithms and data structures/ course.

	Strangely, the only other place I've seen them recently is in the
Valvano ARM Cortex-M text books (using TI TIVA-C boards).



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	Wulfraed                 Dennis Lee Bieber         AF6VN
	wlfraed@ix.netcom.com    http://wlfraed.microdiversity.freeddns.org/

  reply	other threads:[~2020-04-24 15:35 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 82+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-12-03  4:05 Beginning Ada Programming, by Andrew T. Shvets (2020) Paul Rubin
2019-12-03 12:11 ` AdaMagica
2019-12-03 12:33   ` Lucretia
2019-12-03 13:21     ` J-P. Rosen
2019-12-03 13:57       ` Lucretia
2019-12-03 14:04         ` AdaMagica
2019-12-03 14:15           ` AdaMagica
2019-12-03 14:39             ` Simon Wright
2019-12-03 14:45               ` Shark8
2019-12-03 17:38               ` J-P. Rosen
2019-12-03 15:04           ` Lucretia
2019-12-03 15:29             ` Optikos
2019-12-03 16:06               ` Lucretia
2019-12-03 16:26                 ` Optikos
2019-12-03 16:50                   ` Lucretia
2019-12-03 17:02                     ` Shark8
2019-12-03 17:29                       ` AdaMagica
2019-12-05 16:35                       ` Dirk Heinrichs
2019-12-05 17:12                         ` AdaMagica
2019-12-09 19:08                           ` Dirk Heinrichs
2019-12-06 18:34                         ` Shark8
2019-12-06 20:29                           ` Jeffrey R. Carter
2019-12-06 21:05                             ` Shark8
2019-12-07  0:47                               ` Randy Brukardt
2019-12-14  4:21                           ` Keith Thompson
2019-12-14 11:34                             ` AdaMagica
2019-12-03 17:39                     ` Optikos
2019-12-03 19:12                       ` Paul Rubin
2019-12-14  4:34                       ` Paul Rubin
2020-04-17  5:14                       ` Andrew Shvets
2020-04-17  6:17                         ` Teaching Ada types J-P. Rosen
2020-04-29 13:07                           ` Mehdi Saada
2020-04-29 21:25                             ` Paul Rubin
2020-04-17  4:27                   ` Beginning Ada Programming, by Andrew T. Shvets (2020) Andrew Shvets
2020-04-17 12:44                     ` Ludovic Brenta
2020-04-17 13:07                       ` Jere
2020-04-17 14:31                       ` Optikos
2019-12-03 20:40               ` Björn Lundin
2020-04-17  4:16               ` Andrew Shvets
2020-04-17  4:11             ` Andrew Shvets
2020-04-17 15:32               ` Luke A. Guest
2020-04-17  4:10           ` Andrew Shvets
2020-04-17  5:02             ` Andrew Shvets
2020-04-17  4:08         ` Andrew Shvets
2019-12-03 19:14       ` Paul Rubin
2019-12-04  6:47         ` J-P. Rosen
2019-12-04  6:49         ` J-P. Rosen
2019-12-04  9:46           ` Paul Rubin
2020-04-17  4:07       ` Andrew Shvets
2020-04-17  5:49         ` J-P. Rosen
2020-04-17 17:59         ` AdaMagica
2020-04-17 19:28           ` Optikos
2020-04-18 15:29             ` AdaMagica
2020-04-18 16:34               ` cantanima.perry
2020-04-18 17:59                 ` Jere
2020-04-18 21:54                   ` cantanima.perry
2020-04-18 22:18                     ` Luke A. Guest
2020-04-18 22:33                       ` Jere
2020-04-19  0:52                         ` Jere
2020-04-19  2:23                       ` Keith Thompson
2020-04-18 22:37                     ` Jere
2020-04-19  0:42                     ` Paul Rubin
2020-05-02 19:13                 ` dave_thompson_2
2020-04-23 18:43             ` Andrew Shvets
2020-04-23 21:07               ` Paul Rubin
2020-04-23 21:33                 ` Optikos
2020-04-23 21:42                   ` Paul Rubin
2020-04-24 14:42                     ` Optikos
2020-04-24 15:35                       ` Dennis Lee Bieber [this message]
2020-04-30  8:01                       ` Paul Rubin
2020-04-23 18:45             ` Andrew Shvets
2020-11-02 21:14       ` Norman Worth
2020-04-17  4:04   ` Andrew Shvets
2019-12-10  5:17 ` Jerry
2020-04-17  3:58 ` Andrew Shvets
2020-05-09 12:39   ` Chris Collings
2020-10-03  4:23     ` andrew...@gmail.com
2020-10-28 19:21       ` sany...@gmail.com
2020-11-11  1:41 ` Azathoth Hastur
2020-11-12 21:24   ` Shark8
2020-11-12 22:31     ` Chris Townley
2020-11-17 20:48     ` azathot...@gmail.com
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