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

[Michael Anstis]

Welcome, beard and all.

sent on the move

On 19 Jul 2011 05:51, "Michael Neale" <michael.neale at gmail.com> wrote:
> Yes, beard is critical. Also I hope to see most of drools rewritten in
scala
> over the coming months.
>
> On Tue, Jul 19, 2011 at 10:26 AM, Mark Proctor <mproctor at codehaus.org
>wrote:
>
>> 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
>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(JavaOneAudio
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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>>>
>>>
>>
>>
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