[rules-users] Expert Systems and Functional programming?

[Mark Proctor]

On 12 Mar 2013, at 02:10, Grant Rettke <grettke at acm.org> wrote:

> On Mon, Mar 11, 2013 at 10:19 AM, Mark Proctor <mproctor at codehaus.org> wrote:
>> For instance here is an idea I've been mulling over recently (note just random ideas, not roadmap). We don't have
>> the resources to completely compete against other languages, and I'm not sure we should do. With Java8 and 9 it
>> starts to become a more compelling language. Java8 brings lambs and java9 solve the perm gen issue (so we can
>> stop using MVEL, and just go pure code generation and not worry about blowing the perm gen).  Could we create a
>> system that better layers with java9?
> 
> Any other JVM languages that would serve you well right now?
Anyone that offers type safety. So Scala, Ceylon, Koitlin would all be contenders. Java is simply the lowest common denominator that reaches the widest possible mark.  But as mentioned, base java is not enough - we'd need to layer property accessors on it.

Mark
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