From: ram@zedat.fu-berlin.de   
      
   Mike Spencer  wrote or quoted:   
   >Mike Spencer                  Nova Scotia, Canada   
      
     The other day, I read something from a Canadian man named   
     "Spencer". But his full name was Henry Spencer. In 1990,   
     he wrote "awf", an implementation of "nroff -man" in awk!   
      
     Regarding "performant": It's a German word too, and it has the   
     same status as in English: Not part of the general language   
     but computer jargon. Can be found in some German dictionaries:   
      
   |* "performant" per|for|mạnt 〈Adj.〉 [zu engl. performance =   
   |Leistung] (EDV): leistungsfähig, gut funktionierend:   
   |ein -es Notebook; die Datenspeicherung ist zuverlässig und p.   
      
     . This is from older postings in alt.usage.english, where it   
     was apparently applied to cats:   
      
   . . .   
   |I've never thought before that a "good cat" means a performant   
   . . .   
   |The same with a "good wife", not necessarily a performant mouser, but   
   . . .   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)