POSIX bashing

[Bob Goudreau]

In article <127225 at uunet.UU.NET>, rbj at uunet.UU.NET (Root Boy Jim) writes:
> ?   Has anyone implemented this design-by-committee? Does it actually work
> ?   (other than in theory)? Is it performant? Is it useful?
> ?
> ?Is performant a real word? Is it necessary? Isn't the English
> ?vocabulary large enough already?
> 
> Perhaps performant means "conformant" + "performs"?

Yeah, then how come I can't find "conformant" in my dictionary either?
I suspect that it's one of those bastardized combinations of two other
words, like "irregardless" (coined by someone who confused & combined
"irrespective" and "regardless").  In "conformant"'s case, the
collision appears to be between "conforming" and "compliant".
 
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