Howard Zinn's popular text A People's History of the United States, attempts to be what the title claims it as--a people's history. Released in 1980, it was meant to include women and minorities in American history since they were often left out of mainstream works, especially for undergraduates. Zinn gathered material for the book over a twenty-year teaching career and he wanted something that was not only relevant to the young men and women in his class, but something that would get mainstream historians' attention. Zinn's work has been considered controversial especially given his liberal politics, but the book remains popular in that its a history of America which serves all. Just like Zinn's undergraduate classes, it does not pretend to be neutral. Zinn's work popularized using race and gender issues to study American history and today many textbooks at the high school and university level have more material about these issues.
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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