In anticipating the objection to war against the military superpower of Britain, Henry makes two responses. First, he asks the rhetorical question "when shall we be stronger?" He doesn't believe that time ("next week...next year") alone will enable the colonies to strengthen themselves. He creates an image of every colonial home forced to quarter a British soldier, implying that then it would be too late to muster any military strength. He goes on to claim that God will send allies to help the colonies repel the British; it seems plausible that he was thinking of the French, who did indeed assist the colonies later in the Revolutionary War. Henry estimates that there are three million in the colonies, and that if they all united in the common cause, they would be invincible against "any force which our enemy can send against us."
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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