Re: [Exim] Adding eciscan to exim

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Author: Philip Hazel
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To: Christoph Kliemt
CC: exim-users
Subject: Re: [Exim] Adding eciscan to exim
On Wed, 3 Dec 2003, Christoph Kliemt wrote:

> Very good idea. :-) I think "a more distributed way" implies a more
> modular code. So this could be a chance to do a code-cleanup. [1]


That is for the new "management", whatever that turns out to be, to
decide. Certainly it's a possibility.

> - use of C++ :


It is probably no longer the case now, but back in 1995 there was much
more chance of finding a C compiler on a random Unix system than a C++
compiler.

I've never used C++ (despite having known Bjarne Stroustrup in the days
when he was wrestling with a simulation language that didn't quite do
what he wanted - which caused him to invent C++. Yes, C++ is another
widely used thing that has a Cambridge connection. And of course C
itself was derived from BCPL. Steve Bourne was here, too.)

Anyway, I'm probably getting to be too old a dog to learn too many new
tricks at this stage.




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