By "mirage" I will assume you are referring to the walls and floor of the children's nursery which, at "Four-Thirty" come alive with scenes from nature, including "yellow giraffes" and "summer-starched grass." The room probably has the ability to produce several different scenes yet it doesn't seem as though it has the technology capable of making the scenes different for each viewer. Bradbury writes that the images are produced by a film projector which is hidden somewhere in the walls of the room: "Hidden films clocked through well-oiled sprockets, and the walls lived." The nursery is somewhat similar to the nursery in another Bradbury short story "The Veldt" where the walls truly do come alive as the lions in the veldt actually end up killing and eating the parents. Bradbury never goes that far in establishing the reality or capabilities of the walls in "There Will Come Soft Rains." It is simply another example of the incredible modern functions of the automated 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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