In order to reach the climax of the play -- the moment when Proctor decides whether or not to allow the magistrates to retain his false confession -- Proctor must be accused of witchcraft, and since Abigail herself would never do it, someone else must. That someone else is Mary Warren. She is someone who the court would believe because she works for the Proctors and people would think that she has intimate knowledge of their home and family. Without Mary Warren's involvement in the trials as one of the accusers, her voice would be relatively unimportant in town; however, since she is both an accuser and an employee of the Proctors', she is in the unique position to accuse him and be believed. Without her accusation, he would not be arrested; neither would he go to prison nor be tempted to confess to witchcraft. Without Mary's accusation, the play's climax would never occur, and John would never have the opportunity to redeem himself in his own eyes and regain a sense of his own goodness.
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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