In this story, a Pakistani taxi driver who has moved to England wonders why his son is acting strangely. The taxi driver, Parvez, learns his son, Ali, has rejected Western culture to embrace radical Islam. The father, who has bad memories of Pakistan, fully accepts Western culture, eating pork, drinking alcohol, befriending a prostitute and working so that his son can attend college and become financially successful. For Parvez, the material world is all important. Ali treats his father with contempt, despising him for his drinking and weakness, and for not understanding that, in Ali's opinion, Pakistanis will never be accepted in English culture as equals. They engage in generational and religious culture clash. They can't understand each other because their values are so seemingly far apart. In the end, angry that Ali has insulted his friend Bettina, a prostitute, Parvez beats his son, prompting Ali to ask who's the fanatic?
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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