Big-endian vs. little endian. In general, languages differ in syntactic structure on the level of word order. For example, in Latin, word order a bit free for

Big-endian vs. little endian. In general, languages differ in syntactic structure on the level of word order. For example, in Latin, word order a bit free form, things could be moved around quite a bit and still make sense to the listener. Probably allowed for some interesting creativity and poetics. In English, I would say about a book, "the book on the table". In another language, it may be "the on-the-table book." There's even a slight semantic difference where the later example somewhat directly gives the book the property of being "on-the-table". IIRC from my school days, that example resembles Japanese construction, but please someone correct me if I'm wrong, it's been a long time since my comp ling course work.