In simplest terms, Oswald demonstrates extraordinarily rude behavior toward King Lear. A pronounced example of this rudeness occurs when Oswald refuses to acknowledge Lear's summons and questions about his daughter in Act 1, Scene 4. A servant's refusal to acknowledge a king's request would have been the height of insubordination, making Oswald's actions very rude indeed. However, he's not just being rude to be cruel; instead, he's acting on Goneril's orders to be rude in order to force a confrontation between herself and her father. Thus, Oswald's actions play a small but important part in the sisters' plans to cast out their father and and gain power over his realms. By this point in the play, they've already received territory from their father by flattering him. As such, all they need to do to rid themselves of Lear is to find a reason to start a quarrel and toss him out into the wilderness. Oswald's rudeness plays a key role in this endeavor.
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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