While it has mostly gone out of favour, it really isn't due to some cosmic plan. Intel just won in the microprocessor architecture race, and they happened to be

While it has mostly gone out of favour, it really isn't due to some cosmic plan. Intel just won in the microprocessor architecture race, and they happened to be LE due to their evolution. I still have PowerPC and MIPS machines that are BE, and which are occasionally handy for seeing if pointer math is being done wrong.