There are many ways for humans to interact with their specific environment and the greater environment as a whole. Every single action taken by a person has a theoretical ripple effect on even the smallest of beings. For example, you eat an apple yet the core remains intact because you can't eat it. You throw the core away where it is then taken to a land fill. While the core sits in the landfill it is broken down by insects and rodents who store the food from the apple for their winter hibernation. Another example of how we interact with our environment is by consuming the resources that are available to us. Through human ingenuity we are able to pull raw elements from the Earth (iron, wood, oil, etc.) and shape them to our needs. A good thought exercise to use is grabbing a single object and tracing its path to you and the path that it will travel when you have gotten rid of the object.
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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