Northerners were tied to the slaveholding system of the South in many ways. First, southern plantations supplied the cotton that kept the textile mills of the Northeast running. Thus slavery was a very important part of the rise of industry in the United States (and Great Britain.) Less obviously, Northern companies had a considerable amount of money invested in slavery, and in economic pursuits related to slavery. Insurance companies, for example, insured cotton crops and in many cases, enslaved people themselves. The banks that supplied the capital for the expansion of slavery into the old Southwest and the Mississippi River Valley in the nineteenth century were mostly Northern, and they profited heavily, if indirectly, from slavery. Earlier, the merchant companies that essentially controlled the slave trade before it was outlawed in 1808 were almost exclusively Northern. So, as many historians have shown, the economy of the entire United States was, for much of its history, implicated in slavery.
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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