The answer to this is quite simple (at least to anyone who has spent time on a farm). A heifer is an adult female bovine that has not yet given birth to a calf. Usually a heifer is about one year old, at which point they are bred with a bull (not a steer, which has been castrated, or neutered). A heifer becomes a cow once she has given birth. A calf, of course, is a juvenile bovine, male or female. Sometime usually after their first birthday, a male calf is either castrated (at which point it becomes a steer, usually used for beef) or allowed to develop for breeding (as a bull). Cows are used for breeding but are also of course used on dairy farms. To find information on how cattle are raised, you should take a look at a university agricultural extension department. These exist to provide information for farmers and others. I have linked to a couple of these sites below.
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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