Sam Gribley tells this story in the fifth chapter of the book, titled “This Is About the Old, Old Tree.” It takes place in the early days of his time living on his own in the Catskill Mountains. Sam sees a crow quietly fly into a grove of trees. He had been used to hearing the noisy crows in Central Park when he lived in New York City, so this silent crow is unusual to him. At first he thinks he’s going to try to catch the bird to eat it. But instead, he sees a nearby nest made of big sticks. He climbs the tree and finds that the nest holds crow eggs. He decides to eat them for lunch instead of the bird itself, in addition to a wild-grown salad he put together. He’s beginning to learn to live off the resources the landscape offers.
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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