Re: qpsmtpd
[email protected] (Jason R. Mastaler)
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Lloyd Zusman <[email protected]> writes: > Are you thinking of replacing the yucky perl code with yucky python > code? :) ... or would it be in C with the plugins being native, > dynamically loaded modules? > > Seriously, I don't think that python is all that yucky. I'm just > wondering how scalable such a proxy would be if it was written in an > interpreted language. None of the above. I'd implement it in Erlang[1] which by its very nature would give me most of the characteristics I mentioned for free. Designed by Ericsson for their telecommunications apps, it's now an open source general purpose language, that almost has more in common with an operating system than with a programming language. It's definitely the right tool for this job. I'm sure some of the plugins could optionally be written in C, but not the core. Footnotes: [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erlang_programming_language