When Lord Capulet arranges for Juliet to marry Paris (with Romeo banished to Mantua) the Friar devises a complicated and daring plan to reunite Romeo and Juliet. He gives her a poison that is intended to make her appear dead for forty-two hours, during which she will be buried in the Capulet family crypt. In the meantime, the Friar planned to alert Romeo to the plot by sending a letter through a messenger. The friar would sneak into the crypt as Juliet was scheduled to wake, and Romeo would carry her with him to Mantua. The plan, of course, fails because Friar John, Laurence's messenger, fails to get the letter to Romeo (because John's house is sealed off due to fears of plague.) Balthasar, Romeo's servant, thus reaches Romeo and, not being aware of the plot, tells Romeo that Juliet is dead. Romeo buys some poison and returns to Verona, where he kills himself (and young Paris) beside his young wife before the Friar can arrive to tell him of the plan. When Juliet awakens, she finds Romeo's dead body and stabs herself in grief.
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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