In Chapter 20, Scout sees Dolphus Raymond hand Dill a bottle in a sack. Scout has always thought of Mr. Raymond as a drunk, and she knows that he prefers to live with African-American people and has an African-American mistress and biracial children. She thinks he is handing Dill some kind of alcoholic drink, but it turns out that it's just Coca-Cola. When the children ask him why he pretends to be drunk, Mr. Raymond responds, "I try to give ‘em a reason, you see. It helps folks if they can latch onto a reason." In other words, the people of Maycomb would consider it strange for him to keep company with African-American people if he weren't a drunk. By drinking, he prevents them from actually thinking about his open-mindedness and true motivations. His reasoning expands Scout's perspective because she hadn't before considered that a white person could prefer to be around African-American people. She realizes that people's motivations are also different at times from what they first appear to be.
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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