While it is somewhat popular to believe that the Thirteen Colonies were economically and politically unified, nothing could be further from the truth. Throughout the colonies, differing political and economic goals often led to conflict. Even within each individual colony, a strict social stratification was taking place. An elite class was emerging that was quickly becoming politically powerful and economically advantaged. It is the emergence of this aristocratic class that led to several rebellions throughout colonial history. The most famous of the rebellions was led by Nathaniel Bacon in Virginia in 1676. Disheartened by the lack of opportunity afforded to middling planters, and angered by the governors lack of interest in defending the frontier against Indian attacks, Bacon led a rebellion. Bacon and thousands of disgruntled farmers led a revolt against Governor Berkeley and burned the capital. This is one of several examples of social unrest within the colonies themselves.
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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