Publisher's Synopsis
Providing an introduction to generators, this book also discusses backtrack programming. Emphasizing the way that software development is evolving into a collection of approaches, the author points out the need to be able to determine when and where to use a particular approach, how to develop appropriate techniques, and means of establishing methodologies of validation and verification for each approach from the point of view of programming with generators.;The book aims to demonstrate the superiority of functions and generators, discussing their similarities and differences. Examples of generators are given and the author shows how the streams generated by them can be synchronized, using "augmented" Pascal for this purpose. More sophisticated implementation of generators is demonstrated by the use of Gruswold's programming language "Icon".
