The only thing which persuades us even for a moment that big endian makes any sense at all is that we ...
... want to be able to read our own data off a memory dump.
And yes, on balance of things we should bite the bullet and use little endian machines, but at least there's an argument to have. American dates are just rubbish.
Big endian dates (2004-01-09) are vastly preferable to little endian dates (09/01/2004) given that we use a big endian numeral system, because it means you have an outside chance of being able to sort them.
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Date: 2004-01-09 03:21 am (UTC)The only thing which persuades us even for a moment that big endian makes any sense at all is that we ...
... want to be able to read our own data off a memory dump.
And yes, on balance of things we should bite the bullet and use little endian machines, but at least there's an argument to have. American dates are just rubbish.
Big endian dates (2004-01-09) are vastly preferable to little endian dates (09/01/2004) given that we use a big endian numeral system, because it means you have an outside chance of being able to sort them.