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

Yes, beard is critical. Also I hope to see most of drools rewritten in

over the coming months. On Tue, Jul 19, 2011 at 10:26 AM, Mark Proctor <mproctor(a)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(a)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. >> >> <

>> >> Mario is the author of OSS Lambdaj which brings functional programming

>> closures to java, and the Hammurabi Scala rule engine. >> >> Lambdaj >> http://code.google.com/p/lambdaj/ >> >>

>> >> 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. >> >> _______________________________________________ >> rules-dev mailing list >> rules-dev(a)lists.jboss.org >> https://lists.jboss.org/mailman/listinfo/rules-dev >> >> > > > -- > Michael D Neale > home: www.michaelneale.net > blog: michaelneale.blogspot.com > > > _______________________________________________ > rules-dev mailing listrules-dev@lists.jboss.orghttps://

> > > > _______________________________________________ > rules-dev mailing list > rules-dev(a)lists.jboss.org > https://lists.jboss.org/mailman/listinfo/rules-dev > > -- Michael D Neale home: www.michaelneale.net blog: michaelneale.blogspot.com