During the Reign of Terror, the Revolutionary government in France spearheaded a war against counter-revolutionaries, including nobles and priests. This period lasted from September 1793 to July 1794. Robespierre was the head of the Committee of Public Safety and was largely responsible for its actions. Robespierre was dedicated to the ideals of the sans-culottes, or the radical lower classes during the French Revolution. He believed that terror was justified in the pursuit of what he felt was justice; he stated, "Terror is nothing else than justice, prompt, severe, inflexible." The committee he led had dictatorial powers that they felt were necessary to curb civil unrest and foreign wars. Under his leadership, the committee killed off its political enemies on the left and right and instituted the Law of 22 Prairial, year II (passed on June 10, 1794). This law allowed juries only to acquit a suspect or sentence that person to death, and jury trials were held in secret. During the Reign of Terror, about 300,000 people were arrested, and about 17,000 people were executed, largely at Robespierre's direction.
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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