The Crucible takes place in Salem, Massachusetts, in 1692. Salem, a city near Boston, was part of the Massachusetts Bay Colony, which was founded by Puritans. The Puritans ruled the colony as a theocracy, a government in which religious leaders were in control and religion was the law of the land. Puritans saw the world as a battle between good versus evil, and they saw the woods and lands outside their towns as the devil's domain. This establishes the paranoid tone of The Crucible, in which the Puritans believe witchcraft is at work, and establishes an atmosphere in which people still believe in witches' power to control them and wreak havoc in the town. In 1692, a witch hunt actually occurred in Salem, and 20 people were executed. Miller bases his play on some of these real events.
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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