> Binary dumps look more in line with how humans with left-to-right scripts expect to read numbers. I remember VMS EXAMINE command but also printed DEC manuals

> Binary dumps look more in line with how humans with left-to-right scripts expect to read numbers. I remember VMS EXAMINE command but also printed DEC manuals showing hex dumps where the columns where numbered RTL. The ascii view on the right half of the hex dump was following the LTR order, so basically the two views were mirrored. (see example at http://www0.mi.infn.it/~calcolo/OpenVMS/ssb71/4556/4556p004.htm http://www0.mi.infn.it/~calcolo/OpenVMS/ssb71/4556/4556p004....) With such a rendering, little endian does indeed natural. We're doing it all the time when rendering bit positions: bit pos: 3210 bit val: 1100 extending this layout for byte indices is quite natural indeed.