The Scientific Revolution was revolutionary because man started to look for reason and cause-and-effect relationships in natural phenomena. Before, planets moved, people got sick, and objects moved all according to the will of God. During the Scientific Revolution, men such as Newton, Galileo, Copernicus, and Darwin looked for trends as to why things happened, and they found patterns in nature. Newton discovered motion laws. Galileo and Copernicus were famous astronomers who made notes of planetary motion, and Darwin looked at how animals adapt to their habitats over time. Many times scientists of this period were able to use improved mathematical concepts; calculus was developed during this time in order to make precise measurements in the field of physics. Even though the Church protested many of these achievements as they thought it would disprove God, many of these scientists of the early modern period such as Newton, Galileo, and Darwin were really quite devout. This secularization of science made it accessible to more people and encouraged generations of future thinkers to make more improvements and discoveries.
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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