This is an important observation! The programmer's perspective and the user's perspective aren't always the same, and both need consideration. A user is going

This is an important observation! The programmer's perspective and the user's perspective aren't always the same, and both need consideration. A user is going to see a list: it starts at the top, and it ends at the bottom. The first fields are higher, the later fields are lower. Of course, if this is a sorted list, the first field will be the "lowest" value, for whatever comparison is used to sort it.