Comment on Endian wars and anti-portability: this again?parentComments−userbinator5moBE was a huge mistake. Arabic numerals originated in a right-to-left language too.depending on what size integer it isThat's the worst part about BE: values that have a size-dependent term in them, in addition to a subtraction. 2^n vs. 2^(l-n) and 256^N vs 256^(L-N).According to Linus, BE has been "effectively dead" for at least a decade: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9451284−pezezin5moArabic numerals originated in India, were languages are written left to right.
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BE was a huge mistake. Arabic numerals originated in a right-to-left language too.
depending on what size integer it is
That's the worst part about BE: values that have a size-dependent term in them, in addition to a subtraction. 2^n vs. 2^(l-n) and 256^N vs 256^(L-N).
According to Linus, BE has been "effectively dead" for at least a decade: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9451284
Arabic numerals originated in India, were languages are written left to right.