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On 23-Jun-14 13:21, Dan'l Miller wrote:
> In the spirit of lambasting the lack of direct representation
> of finite-state machines (FSMs) in Ada:

Wtf, there's a direct representation for state-machines:

Type State is ([...]);
Type Event is ([...]);

-- Here it is!
FSM : Array(State, Event) of State:= ([...]);

...and that's Ada-83.