In Bradbury's "The Veldt," the Happy Home and the nursery satirize modern society's tendency to equate happiness with comfort and ease. The Happy Home is a technological marvel that does everything for the Hadley family, to the extent that Mrs. Hadley, a housewife, feels useless. The nursery raises the two children, Peter and Wendy, who come to regard the view screens that they spend most of their time watching as more authoritative than their own parents. The story illustrates that over-reliance on technology is a trap. We can't let technology live our lives for us or raise our children for us without suffering the consequences. After falling under the grip of technology, the Hadley parents learn too late that their children have become dehumanized. They learn that letting a house do everything for them has torn their family apart, not made it happier.
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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