The officer in charge of the small Union garrison inside Fort Sumter was Major Robert Anderson. Anderson, who had been stationed along with his men at Fort Moultrie, at the tip of nearby Sullivan's Island, moved his men to Fort Sumter, which sits on a small man-made island guarding the entrance to Charleston Harbor. This decision, made amid the growing crisis in Charleston following South Carolina's secession, would prove a fateful one. Newly-inaugurated President Abraham Lincoln could not abandon the fort to the Confederates, and Confederate President Jefferson Davis did not feel that he could tolerate the presence of Union troops on what he claimed was Confederate soil. Eventually, Lincoln made the decision to resupply the fort, and the Confederates began the Civil War by opening fire on the fort. Anderson, a native of slaveholding Kentucky, was promoted to brigadier general during the war, and quickly became a national hero.
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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