We do not actually know, with any certainty, what crimes Fortunato has committed against Montresor. In the first line of the story, Montresor claims that Fortunato has injured him a "thousand" times, and when Fortunato, at last, "insult[ed]" him, Montresor had finally had enough. Evidently, whatever injuries Montresor has sustained at the hands of Fortunato, they had more to do with wounding his pride than his person. When Montresor speaks to Fortunato about confirming that a pipe of wine he recently, hastily, purchased is, indeed, Amontillado, Fortunato seems to enjoy the idea that Montresor has made a mistake. He exclaims, "'Amontillado? A pipe? Impossible!'" Despite his apparent illness, Fortunato insists that he accompany Montresor into his vaults to see this wine. Even on the way to see this alleged wine, he insults Montresor by insisting that he could not possibly be a Freemason. Therefore, it seems likely that Fortunato's only crimes are being a bit mean-spirited and wounding Montresor's pride.
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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