During the era of Christopher Columbus in the 15th Century, Europeans were very interested in the markets of India and the East. Countries like Portugal, England, and Spain were interested in finding routes to the East that would avoid the exorbitant fees being charged by Muslim middlemen. The Portuguese established a route by sailing south along the coast of Africa. Christopher Columbus believed that he could sail to the West and reach India in that direction. Naturally, this was not possible without slamming into the Americas. Columbus initially landed on an island in the Bahamas. He also would travel to a number of other islands and also Hispaniola. Columbus managed to create interest in the European colonization of this vast wealth of land. As a result of Columbus's voyages, Spain was able to claim a large empire in the New World and benefited economically from the looting of gold and silver from the land.
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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