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		rdtsc on June 13, 2011 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Why developers should be force-fed state machines Erlang comes with gen_fsm behavior because often when writting network protocols and servers, a state machine is a useful abstraction. Relevant: "Rage Against The Finite-State Machine" from "Learn you some Erlang For Great Good" http://learnyousomeerlang.com/finite-state-machines

teaspoon on June 13, 2011 [–]

In Haskell, you can represent a state machine and its current state using an iteratee:

http://www.yesodweb.com/blog/2010/09/enumerators-tutorial-pa...

An iteratee is essentially just a function that takes an input symbol and returns either a final state value or another iteratee.

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