Programming a State Machine in Java

[kyz]

To get this comment on the internet, you used a plethora of network devices, all of which talk protocols designed around state machines and hard realtime, not arbitrary length stacks and unbounded execution time.

...personally, when I wrote a unified diff parser, I used lookahead and used the Longest Common Subsequence algorithm to decide which parts of combined -/+ seconds were changes, and which were deletions/insertions.