The passage of the Prohibition of Mixed Marriages Act in 1949 banned marriages between white and non-white South Africans and nullified existing mixed race marriages. It was amended in 1968 to invalidate South African citizens' interracial marriages even if the marriage had been officiated in another country. The South African public largely agreed with anti-miscegenation laws, and existing Apartheid legislation already ensured that racial groups were largely segregated and rarely able to interact as equals. Prior to the passage of the law, only 0.23% of all marriages in the country were mixed race as a result of this segregation. Most resistance to the law came from churches, who argued against state intervention in the institution of marriage. However, the law was unchanged until 1985, when the government passed the Immorality and Prohibition of Mixed Marriages Amendment Act to repeal the ban.
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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