A Plasma Vision draft
Marco Martin
notmart at gmail.com
Tue Apr 5 08:46:55 UTC 2016
On Tuesday 05 April 2016, Sebastian Kügler wrote:
> On Monday 04 April 2016 17:29:58 Thomas Pfeiffer wrote:
> > On Montag, 4. April 2016 15:04:30 CEST Jonathan Riddell wrote:
> > > I'm not convinced performant is a word although it seems to be used
> > > for computer jargon
> > >
> > > http://english.stackexchange.com/questions/38945/what-is-wrong-with-the
> > > -wo rd -performant
> >
> > It is clearly jargon. As Jens already said, the question is: Can we
> > afford the jargon or not? We think we can, but there are certainly also
> > good arguments against it.
>
> I don't like it. How about "nimble", it expresses power and speed in a
> positively sounding adjective.
to me nimble sounds like "small footprint" while would be a good aim to have
in the future, i am not sure i could tell that around with a straight face on
the current state... (and if is so contrary to the current perception it may
really backfire)
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Marco Martin
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