Java Magazine: JUnit 5 Arrives by Andrew Benstock

Author:Andrew Benstock [Benstock, Andrew]
Language: eng
Format: azw3
Publisher: UNKNOWN
Published: 2018-12-04T16:00:00+00:00

If I’m a little activated [when coding], then I’ll listen to something soothing. And my

go-to for that is Thomas

Tallis’The Lamentations

of Jeremiah.

Binstock: We’ll have to go through a number of iterations of things like that before virtual reality actually inds a role

that’ll help with the coding.

Beck:Yes, I’m a big believer in getting rid of textual source code and operating directly on the abstract syntax trees. I did an experimental code editor called Prune with my friend Thiago Hirai. It looked like a text editor and it rendered as a text editor would render, but you could only do operations on the abstract syntax trees, and it was much more eicient, much less error-prone. It required far less cognitive efort. That convinced me that’s the wave of the future, and I don’t know if it’s going to be in 5 years or 25 years, but we’re all

going to be operating on syntax trees sometime soon.

Binstock:Yes, of all the things that have changed and moved forward, the requirement that we still code at an ink-andpaper level hasn’t really moved forward very much.

Beck:No, we’re coding on punch cards. It’s rendered one on top of the other, but it’s the same darn stuf.

Binstock:The initial place of programmer activity hasn’t

evolved very much at all. Despite having wonderful IDEs and things of that sort, the physical act is still very much the

same. One last thing, I know you’re a musician. Do you listen to music when you code?

Beck: Yes. Binstock: What kind of music do you ind that you enjoy most coding to?

Beck:I use it to kind of regulate my energy level, so if I’m a little activated, then I’ll listen to something soothing.

And my go-to for that is Thomas Tallis’ The Lamentations of Jeremiah, which is a very lowing vocal quartet kind of medi- eval music. If I’m a little low and I need picking up, then I listen to go-go music, which is an ofshoot of funk native to Washington DC.

Binstock:OK. I’ve never heard of that.

Beck:That’s my upping music.

Binstock:Wonderful! Thank you!</article> 42

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