VMs: VMs word models --> state machines...?

[Knox Mix <knoxmix@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Nick Pelling wrote:
> Hi everyone,
>
> I'm planning to extend my JavaScript VMs code to handle various 
> well-known VMs "word" models, to measure how well they actually work 
> relative to each other - as my code already uses a state machine, it 
> should just be a question of converting each paradigm to its implicit 
> state machine, letting it run, & gathering statistics.
>
> But rather than reinvent the wheel, may I ask if anyone has already 
> tried to turn VMs word models into state machines? I don't recall seeing 
> anything, but there may be something somewhere...
>
> For example, I just tried to do this for Michael Winkelmann's recent 
> model, but my poor German comprehension has left me a little bemused - 
> can someone get me properly started?
>     http://elias.weltretter.de/index.php?txt_id=45
>
> AIUI, this says:-
>
> I-class            i    n    r    l    m
> E-class        e    o    s    y    g
> K-class (gallows)    k    t    f    p
> L-class        ih    ch    cfh        [+ sh ?]
> X-class (exceptions)    a    q
>
> Law#1:    E follows (E / ch / K / a)
> Law#2:    I follows (I / L)
> Law#3:    I (except i) usually terminates a word
> Law#4:    E (except e  [or "o" too?] ) usually terminates a word
> Law#5:    [Not sure about this one - any suggestions?]
> Law#6:    [Not sure about this one either - any suggestions?]
> Law#7:    K-class is nearly always surrounded by E-class, or as c[K]h
>
> The absence of "d" is puzzling: should the final E-class "g" actually be 
> "d"? This could just be a typo in the table. I'm far from sure about 
> "ih" as well, & the whole issue of c[K]h seems not to fully match how 
> they appear in the text IIRC... etc etc.
>
> Thanks, .....Nick Pelling.....

Hi Nick,

If you know any German at all you are ahead of me but this is what I get 
out of #5 with the help(?) of Bablefish.

Fifth harmony law: The "l" exception
    The glyph "l" can be used (can behave) as a glyph of the "e" class, 
although it is actually a glyph of the "i" class.
"l" is a "joker", which can be "i" or "e".

I think some "ih" glyphs might be found with the MrSID's.

Regards, ...... Knox
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