At the beginning of Washington Irving's tale "The Devil and Tom Walker," it is unclear what the title character does for a living. The narrator notes that Tom is both "meager" and "miserly." Judging by his house and property, which had an "air of starvation" and was described as a "land of famine," it might best be assumed that Tom did nothing. After his deal with the Devil, however, he becomes a moneylender in Boston. Initially, the Devil wants Tom to outfit a ship and become a slave trader, but when Tom balks at that they settle on Tom becoming a "usurer." When the Devil suggests that Tom lend money at "two per cent a month," Tom insists that he will charge four. Tom's mean and greedy ways eventually make him quite a wealthy man in Boston until, just before he is about to foreclose on the mortgage of a supposed friend, the Devil appears, taking him away to the "black hemlock swamp," and he is never seen again.
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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