Re: qpsmtpd

[email protected] (Jason R. Mastaler) writes:

> 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.
> [ ... ]

Well, Erlang doesn't compile down to native code, but I suppose that its
byte code would still be more than efficient enough for this
application.

I didn't know that there was an open source version of Erlang.  Now, I'm
going to start playing with it!


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 Lloyd Zusman
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 God bless you.