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I love how the term "endianness" was picked straight from Gulliver's Travels. It's a very good fit - old wise computer wizards must've known how it's gonna be.
by drdaeman 2y ago
I love how the term "endianness" was picked straight from Gulliver's Travels. It's a very good fit - old wise computer wizards must've known how it's gonna be.
- BoppreH 2y agoI'm not sure. I was confused for years thinking that "big-endian" meant "the big number is at the end". It was only after reading Gulliver's Travels that it clicked. I'm all for silly names, but I think this one went a little too much into obscure references and metaphors.
- wbl 2y agoThe RFC makes the reference explicit. https://www.rfc-editor.org/ien/ien137.txt https://www.rfc-editor.org/ien/ien137.txt