There are many questions I would like to ask Philip in The Cay by Theodore Taylor. First and foremost I would ask him what he learned about racism and prejudice from spending time with Timothy. How did his mother's experiences with black people influence his attitude toward Timothy when he first met him, and how did he change? I would also probably ask him how his blindness affected him both for the better and for the worse. I might ask him to predict how he might have been a different person if he had never had the experience of being shipwrecked. When he gets back to Curacao, he says he doesn't feel the same about his friends anymore, so I would ask him what it is that is different about them and about himself. Finally, how has his experience with Timothy changed his outlook on the world?
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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