Thomas Paine was an Englishman who emigrated to North America during the Revolutionary War period. He developed strong opinions about the role of England's form of government, parliamentary monarchy, and its role in colonized America. He published his opinions in pamphlets. In 1776, Thomas Paine authored an influential pamphlet called "Common Sense" a mere six months before the United States declared themselves a nation through The Declaration of Independence. In it, he advocated for the colonies to develop their own government. Paine suggestion that replacing England's government of the colonies with a local republican form of government would result in a greater success. The new nation would be more successful because they, rather than England, would own the wealth of their considerable natural resources.
As a software engineer, I need to sometimes describe a piece of code as something that lacks performance or was not written with performance in mind. Example: This kind of coding style leads to unmaintainable and unperformant code. Based on my Google searches, this isn't a real word. What is the correct way to describe this? EDIT My usage of "performance" here is in regard to speed and efficiency. For example, the better the performance of code the faster the application runs. My question and example target the negative definition, which is in reference to preventing inefficient coding practices. Answer This kind of coding style leads to unmaintainable and unperformant code. In my opinion, reads more easily as: This coding style leads to unmaintainable and poorly performing code. The key to well-written documentation and reports lies in ease of understanding. Adding poorly understood words such as performant decreases that ease. In addressing the use of such a poorly ...
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