There seems to be a pretty deep level of understanding between the speaker of the poem and his horse. It's likely that they spend so much time together, typically in the same familiar places, that they both know the routine so well that they really have to communicate relatively little in order to do what they need to do. But now, in this poem, the speaker says, "My little horse must think it queer / To stop without a farmhouse near" (lines 5-6). They have made a stop that is off their beaten path, in the woods, not where they typically stop. The narrator knows his horse so well that he anticipates the horse's response to straying from their routine. Then, when the horse shakes his head, the narrator attributes this to the horse's confusion about the unexpected stop. The narrator says, "He gives his harness bells a shake / To ask if there is some mistake." The speaker somewhat personifies the horse, suggesting that he is asking the speaker a question, and so this seems to indicate a high level of understanding, or at least a close bond, between narrator and horse.
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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