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Building a functional email server with Dominick LoBraico

Signals and Threads

CHAPTER

Using OCaml in a Mail Server Configuration Language

OCaml is a well thought through abstraction in the middle of OCaml. We didn't now have to go out and find a bunch of people who understood this esoteric configuration language. And then it kind of gets you out of this problem of having to think about a weird complicated special case that comes up for mail and for nothing else. That simple pivot in the design, it lets you bypass all of this complexity of this custom language.

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