The South called the election of Lincoln a farce. Lincoln got so little support in the South that he was not even on many Southern ballots. Southerners saw the election of Lincoln as proof that the North was growing more powerful and at some point in the future would vote to do away with slavery. Even Southerners who did not personally own slaves had bad feelings about this because there was the question of what to do with all of the freed slaves. Tensions were quite high in 1860, and part of the campaign to elect Lincoln was quite militant in nature--the Wide-Awakes held military-style torchlight parades at night. While this was meant to excite the electorate, some radical Southerners feared that the North would seek to create a tyranny over the South and change its longstanding institutions if Lincoln were elected. It should also be remembered that Lincoln was elected with a minority of the popular vote. While this has happened before in American history, Southerners pointed out that this only proved that an abolitionist minority was gaining power in America. Of course, Northern congressmen had complained that Southern congressmen had too much power in relation to their congressional districts.
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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