"Lord Ullin's Daughter" by Thomas Campbell, is a poem that tells the tragic story of young lovers trying to escape the woman's father, Lord Ullin. His daughter is fleeing with her lover, a chieftain of Ulva. In lines four and five of the poem, the boatman asks the chieftain, "Now who be ye would cross Lochgyle/This dark and stormy water?" According to Scotland Magazine (see the link below), Loch Gyle, also called Loch na Keal, is a sea loch that divides Gribun on Mull from Ulva. Mull is the second largest island that makes up the Inner Hebrides off Scotland's west coast, and Ulva is also an island in the Inner Hebrides that is separated from Mull by a thin strait. Though this strait can be crossed by a ferry today, it was a storm-tossed sea in the poem, and the couple sadly perished while crossing it.
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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