Out of the context FINAL STATE MACHINE sounds like an electric chair, some
invention from a civilized country..
But most of the time they take a CocaCola-machine as example, wat's also an
invention from the same civilized country. 

-----Original Message-----
From: Jim Benson [mailto:jb at speed.net]
Sent: dinsdag 10 juli 2001 22:49
To: squeak-dev at lists.squeakfoundation.org
Subject: Re: Living happily together


Ned,

> >
> > Sorry, my acronym memory just shorted out. When an acronym starts with F
I
> > usually get scared. What does FSM stand for?
>
> A finite state machine.

Now you know why I get scared.

Thanks for the answer,

Jim