The automated house in Ray Bradbury's futuristic short story "There Will Come Soft Rains" is empty of people because the city has been destroyed by a nuclear attack. In the story's text, the paragraph which begins "Ten O'Clock" tells the reader that the house stood alone in a "city of rubble and ashes." In the next paragraph, Bradbury describes silhouettes of four people, a man, woman, and two children—most certainly the inhabitants of the house who perished in the blast as they participated in outside activities. These silhouettes are similar to those recorded on the walls of buildings after the atomic detonations at Hiroshima and Nagasaki at the end of World War II. The only sign of life, other than the machines, is the family dog, who inevitably dies of radiation poisoning. Despite the absence of humans in the house, the automation goes on with its normal day, preparing breakfast, making announcements, cleaning, and setting up the day's activities. In the end, a fire destroys the house.
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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