Both Friar Laurence and the Nurse help Romeo and Juliet get married. Friar Laurence assists by performing the secret ceremony that allows the pair to hide their union from their family. He also concocts a plan to reunite the pair after Romeo’s exile by providing Juliet with the sleeping potion that wrongly causes Romeo to conclude that Juliet is dead. Similarly, the Nurse assists Romeo and Juliet in a variety of ways, but this assistance also ultimately leads to their respective deaths. Throughout the play, the Nurse acts as an intermediary between Romeo and Juliet. She delivers messages for both and facilitates their secret meetings. So while both the Nurse and Friar Lawrence do, indeed, help Romeo and Juliet get married, this help ironically results in the final tragedy of the play.
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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