It's a lot harder to replace components that are lower down in a stack.
Does this mean that designs tend to be better for higher level components? x86 has been around for a long time and has plenty of features we'd change in hindsight.
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I've been writing docs for different programming language operators (+, *, == and so on). Each one gets a separate web page.
I've suddenly realised that / is much harder! docs/+ and docs/== is fine, but docs// just doesn't work as a URL in a static site.
Any ideas?
@MekahimeAkari @lifning "C makes it easy to shoot yourself in the foot; C++ makes it harder, but when you do it blows your whole leg off". -- Real Stroustrup quote, 1986
Seen in the wild: replace all the newlines with a literal $ in sed:
sed -e 's/$/$/'
It's always bugged me that regex replace syntax looks similar to regex, occurs close to the search syntax, but actually has a different meaning. It's harder to read.