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

[Michael Neale]

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(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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