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

[Michael Neale]

Great ! And a scala fiend too ! Brilliant !

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(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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