Re: [Haskell-cafe] Endianess

Aaron Denney writes:

I used to be a big-endian advocate, on the principle that it doesn't really matter, and it was standard network byte order. Now I'm convinced that little endian is the way to go

I guess it depends a lot on what you grew up with. The names (little/big endian) are incredibly apt. The only argument I can come up with, is that big endian seems to make more sense for 'od': % echo foobar > foo % od -x foo 0000000 6f66 626f 7261 000a 0000007 Since this is little endian, the output corresponds to "of bo ra \0\n". So I guess the argument is that for big-endian, the concatenation of hex numbers is invariant with respect to word sizes? -k -- If I haven't seen further, it is by standing in the footprints of giants