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brucou

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    Comment #35343300

    I beg to differ here. Or let's say that the React "functional programming" model has very little to do with the actual functional programming done by actual functional programmers.…

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    Comment #35343037

    Hi there. IMO, there are three issues there: familiarity, mental model, and caveats (using $ and not getting reactive updates in some cases). Focusing on mental model, maybe my men…

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    Comment #27252206

    :-) I feel you. I like to think that state machines are used where they are useful (in some games, process orchestration, generators, embedded systems, etc.). The question is more …

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    Comment #26944241

    If we talk about professional use, then Powerpoint (many years ago), then Visio (also many years ago), then yEd (by yWorks, https://www.yworks.com/products/yed ). Then there are a …

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    Comment #25392665

    I do agree with the thesis that nobody got fired for using React. I don't however think that the conclusion is to use React anywhere for anything. From what I read here, what happe…

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    Comment #22123730

    State machines are a generic term. You will find here the different kinds of state machines, with varying expressive power that are used in computer science and actuak programming:…

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    Comment #22123694

    I have been looking for that too and could not find much, at least not much that is available for free. That said, I give a series of example of miscellaneous complexity in Kingly …

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    Comment #22123539

    That is one of the early papers by David Harel which divulgated statecharts among the scientific community. Note that since then, there has been a number of criticisms made about t…

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    Comment #22123493

    I find your thesis interesting (that agile ended the top-down design approach resulting from statecharts modeling). Do you have any references/links I can review to support it? It …

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    Comment #19047526

    Nice article! I authored a javascript library which modelizes state machines as a multidigraph, use cartesian products to derive a standard flat graph, and generate test sequences …

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    Comment #18488788

    This is interesting feedback. There are obviously subjective parts in it, but that's valuable all the same. Focusing on the objective parts : An observable is powerful abstraction,…

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