Program control via transition matrices---a novel application of micro-programming
S. Ron Oliver, Nell D. Jones · 1976
The problem of processing and interpreting character-strings in a systematic, efficiently implementable manner has given rise to a variety of decision- (or transition-) table and transition-diagram techniques. These have been used in the design and/or coding of string-oriented processors, such as lexical analysis portions of compilers. All these techniques share in common the idea of an input driven transition control.