Yet another misteriously killed post, by someone who's not deadbanned:

In [1] , fleitz [2] wrote

Explicitly using a state machine often yields benefits in terms of reusability and clarity. The state machine pattern also works really well with async code where it quickly becomes unapparent what's going on.

[1] http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2650347 [2] http://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=fleitz

The same can be said of any of the lesser patterns. People who turn _everything_ into a Singleton for instance. Or who want everything to be a Factory or a Command.