Southern politicians in Congress made these threats because they were angry that California's constitution, which had to be approved to admit it to statehood, outlawed slavery within its borders. South Carolina Senator John C. Calhoun, the aging politician most associated with this position, argued that the ability to bar slavery from new states in the West doomed the slaveholding South to permanent minority status within the Union. This was an old argument that dated back to the debate over the admission of Missouri in 1820. Like the Missouri crisis, the California crisis was resolved by a complex political compromise that called for the admission of California as a free state. Calhoun spoke against this aspect of the compromise, and many northerners were outraged by the harsh terms of the Fugitive Slave Act. The compromise in many ways set the tone of the spiraling crisis over slavery that divided the nation in 1860.
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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