The first president of the United States was George Washington. He was unanimously chosen by the Electoral College in the election of 1788, the only president to achieve such a distinction. His Vice President was John Adams, who finished second in the voting (in those days, each elector cast two votes, and the candidate who received the second-highest total became Vice President--every elector voted for Washington). While President, Washington faced a number of challenges. He had to set a precedent for presidential power and behavior. He had to supervise a plan laid out by Alexander Hamilton to deal with the nation's fiscal crisis. He had to figure out the correct response to the outbreak of the French Revolution and the resulting French war with England. He faced challenges from Native peoples in the Ohio Valley (which resulted in open war) and the Southwest. And he had to deal with the development of political factions, or parties, as a result of differences on how to deal with these issues. Most historians credit Washington with handling these crises and challenges with diplomacy and restraint, but many of the issues persisted after his presidency.
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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