Hi David and others,

I'm fresh out of college and what you are currently doing sounds to me like the hopefully 'current practice' that I was taught. Switch-case state machines, in all their various forms, have worked well for me thus far. Provided the code is founded upon well-structured state/ transition diagrams, then complex machines seem to me to be quite manageable.

Hmm...my highly inadequate understanding of protothreads suggests that such an abstraction layer may have been intended as a simpler(?) alternative to complex state machine coding. Perhaps someone could please straighten me out before I inadvertently manage to misrepresent protothread applicability?

http://www.sics.se/~adam/pt/

Regards,
Murray R. Van Luyn.