[bsummer4]

Do be fair, he said "impure language" and not "impure code".

"Looks like we need to let the scholars know - there are 18,300 uses of the non-word "performant" in scholarly papers" <- If that's not sarcasm, something is wrong. Performant is a word!

[auggierose]

It is a word, just not an English one it seems! It certainly is a German word. That might explain a lot ;-) It might also explain the many occurrences, as there are many Germans writing papers in English.