It makes porting non-endian-aware software much easier. If you've written software that, for example, serialises data to disk, or sends and receives it over the

It makes porting non-endian-aware software much easier. If you've written software that, for example, serialises data to disk, or sends and receives it over the network, and you haven't specifically coded for it, you can get a bit of a shock when you change endians.