On: Why Developers Never Use State Machines

[conductor]

If you are a C developer, try Ragel [http://www.complang.org/ragel]. I use it lot, also can be easily pared with the Lemon parser generator.

[tom_b → conductor]

For more re: Ragel, look at

http://zedshaw.com/essays/ragel_state_charts.html

What I really like there is the idea of a DSL that generates your state machine code for a protocol.