Erlang Factory: Sean Cribbs: Achieving Parsing Sanity with Neotoma

Erlware - martinjlogan@erlware.org (Martin J. Logan) - March 25, 2010

CucumberSean worked on a testing framework for doing acceptance testing called cucumber.  Cucumber let you write agile stories that were executable.  Sean had a thought, why not write cucumber in Erlang?  Gherkin uses TreetopA simple language for expressing tests. Why not use leex and yecc to do the parser generation for handling Gherkin/Treetop.  The problem with using leex and yecc was that the



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