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Until I read this article, I never realised where the term "endianness" came from: "...computer scientists got their inspiration for the term 'endianness' from
by micheljansen 13y ago
Until I read this article, I never realised where the term "endianness" came from:
"...computer scientists got their inspiration for the term 'endianness' from Jonathan Swift's 1726 epic Gulliver’s Travels. In the fictional kingdom of Lilliput people have to open their soft-boiled eggs at the small end (it's a royal decree). While in Blefuscu, eggs are cracked from the other end. Lilliputians are small-endians while Blefuscudians are big-endians."
- someperson 13y agoWow it turns out the author of the article pulled that factoid along with his next accompanying quote straight Wikipedia! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Endianness#Etymology http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Endianness#Etymology And the second half of the article is a Google autocomplete screenshot. The article is complete fluff!