Flutterby™! : buzzwords out of control

Okay, one software engineering comment. I remember being really excited about discovering Finite State Machines. It was while coding up an "is this a valid MS-DOS filename" application, and a table driven solution reduced the problem to a tight loop and an easily modified and understood array. But do we have to give them a new buzzword name to sell them? The mostly content-free /. review of Practical Statecharts in C/C++ seems to indicate that not only has computer science teaching not improved much since I quit (and we'll leave off the number of alleged "software developers" who think that systems analysis is superfluous), people find it necessary to wrap up old ideas in new buzzwords to keep their consulting businesses going.