Goodman Brown is surprised by the people he sees in the forest because he would never have expected so many folks who seem to upright and honest to be in attendance at a Witches' Sabbath or to be in league with the Devil. Brown might have expected to see "men of dissolute lives and women of spotted fame," or other people who are suspected of terrible crimes and those who are well-known for their vices. However, to see these kinds of people mixing with those church members who are "famous for their especial sanctity" as well as many others who all have excellent, pious reputations, is quite shocking to him. The narrator says, "It was strange to see, that the good shrank not from the wicked, nor were the sinners abashed by the saints." In other words, Brown is very surprised to note that there seems to be no difference at all in the behavior of those people he once believed to be good and those people he knows to be sinful. Further, there is no sign that anyone is embarrassed to be seen there; it is as if the fact that every person in this crowd is actually a sinner is a surprise to no one except Brown.
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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