[rules-dev] Mario Fusco to join as core Drools engine developer

[Mark Proctor]

On 19/07/2011 01:12, Michael Neale wrote:
> Great ! And a scala fiend too ! Brilliant !
he also has a beard, so he must be good :)

Mark
>
> On Tue, Jul 19, 2011 at 9:19 AM, Mark Proctor <mproctor at codehaus.org 
> <mailto:mproctor at codehaus.org>> wrote:
>
>     It gives me great pleasure to announce that Mario Fusco will be
>     joining the Drools team to work on the core engine in August.
>
>     <http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-akW2uD65cMk/TiStROLDV7I/AAAAAAAAAgM/jWKgD-qIqkM/s1600/MarioFusco.jpg>
>
>     Mario is the author of OSS Lambdaj which brings functional
>     programming and closures to java, and the Hammurabi Scala rule engine.
>
>     Lambdaj
>     http://code.google.com/p/lambdaj/
>     http://today.java.net/pub/a/today/2009/08/08/J1-2009-MarioFusco-Lambdaj.html
>     (JavaOne Audio podcast)
>
>     Hammurabi
>     http://code.google.com/p/hammurabi/
>     http://java.dzone.com/articles/hammurabi-scala-rule-engine
>
>     Mario initially will be focusing on improving the end user
>     experience of the core engine, specifically in authoring DRL.
>     Below is a list of areas he'll be responsible for, during his
>     first 6 months. Of course he isn't limited to just those :)
>
>       * Improved syntax error reporting
>       * Killing all parser bugs and also expression and action
>         evaluation bugs.
>       * Better masking of the underlying execution engine (MVEL leaks
>         too much)
>       * Helping us move to a single language (no more dialects).
>       * Micro benchmarking so we can better track performance and
>         memory regressions
>       * ASM bytecode compilation so we can reduce our dependency on
>         JDT over time, which is too heavy. ASM will allow a more
>         runtime JIT approach to expressions and actions.
>       * Maintaining the Eclipse DRL editor.
>       * Help with future DRL design discussions especially on
>         functional programming.
>
>     More importantly this allows core maintenance to be spread across
>     more people, which gives Edson and myself more time to do research
>     so we can innovate faster.
>
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