In "Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening," the horse in the poem thinks it's strange that the narrator is stopping in an unusual place to look at the snowfall. The horse is impatient to get on, but the narrator lingers where he can watch the snow fall in the woods. This episode relates to the way in which human beings often live without really looking around. The owner of the farmhouse is not there to see the lovely woods during the snowfall, and the horse, unaccustomed to stopping, is eager to get moving. Similarly, people like to remain on their usual paths and do not often take time or stop their routines to smell the figurative roses. As a result, people often miss out on seeing beautiful and inspiring sights or experiencing something new and transcendent.
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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