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by ktta 3121 days ago
Possible? Yes, but it isn't a smart move to do so. Implementing the whole HTTP spec will be a waste of space and time.

Also, 'reprogramming' isn't as simple as it sounds. It is a pain staking process to test RTL you want to put into production. Even simple projects I'm working on, simple tests and synthesis take a lot of time.

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Inconsequential niggle: the word/phrase is painstaking, which breaks up as pains-taking (rather than pain-staking). As in "I am taking pains to do this correctly". Back when I were a wee lad, one often took pains; kids these days are more likely to attach the phrase to the task rather than the performer, so the adjectival inversion is more common, and it's easy to rebracket.

(Rebracketing in language is the process by which you now may find yourself eating an orange rather than a narange, cutting a notch in something rather than cutting an otch, or feeling a bit more alone than all one. Sometimes it results in language change, but there's that awkward period where it's wrong first.)

I noticed that too, mentally paused for a moment, and then wondered if maybe it was an autocorrect fail. It'd be an eyebrow-raising one (a bug), but I don't put much past autocorrect...

But while I'm on this subtopic, if you've never heard of it, "france is bacon" is fun to google.

Thank you.