We hear the story of Flaco in the “Miami, Florida,” chapter of Whirligig. We don’t know his real name. He and his family moved from Puerto Rico to Miami. He didn’t know much English at first. He got a job as a dishwasher in a restaurant. Here the waitresses gave him the nickname Flaco, a Spanish slang term meaning “skinny.” Flaco eventually got a job as a street sweeper in order to support his wife Constancia and son Raul. They had already lost a daughter. One day, the stress of his situation prods him to go for a long drive across the state to Tampa. There he sees one of Brent’s whirligigs, made up of the wooden marching band characters. It reminds him that people find connection in groups. It reminds him of the value of his own family unit.
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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