[erlang-questions] Erlang and bbcode

[Richard O'Keefe]

On 13/07/2012, at 12:43 PM, Bob Ippolito wrote:

> Sounds like an education problem to me. If I had to guess, I'd say that markdown was done this way because it was somehow easier to come up with a ball of regexes than make a complete grammar that did something useful. Testing seems a lot more mainstream now than it was  when either of these things were developed.

When _were_ they developed?  Testing has been around for a _long_ time.