[Antonello]

Anyone who has programmed for a living knows that budget constraints and managerial incompetence often result in the reuse of bad code, and the accumulation of dead code. Looks like a designer to me. More likely a team of Microsoft programmers.

Recycled DNA = sloppy, reused code = spaghetti code = proof of FSM!

The link is made!

[Junior]

Elimination of the "goto" statement eliminated most spaghetti code. Whether this rendered the FSM dead or not...