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Re: Mandating PERL for ZMailer system ??
> You know, I was talking to Rayan a few days ago,
> and the subject of zmailer came up. I suggested replacing the router's
> shell interpreter with a perl interpreter.
[...]
> Rayan didn't disagree.
He should have - it violates one of the primary goals of zmailer: efficiency.
The perl interpreter is a pregnant elephant compared to the zmailer shell
interpreter.
Using perl for configuration work is (probably) OK, but it's a whole
different thing to consider using perl for core functionality.
-Andy