Word of the day: Endianness
Thursday, January 26th, 2006In the last 36 hours, two developers have emailed to tell me about their triumphs with “
Because I am supposed to present a knowledgeable fa?ɬßade, I emailed back saying, “Great”, “Excellent! :)” and so forth.
Then I ran to
Endianness generally refers to sequencing methods used in a one-dimensional system (such as writing or computer memory). The two main types of endianness are known as big-endian and little-endian.
Systems which exhibit aspects of both conventions are often described as middle-endian. When specifically talking about bytes in computing, endianness is also referred to as byte order or byte sex.
What could be plainer than that?!
I think it has something to do with
(Or possibly Jonathan Swift).
UPDATE: But I’m wrong. FastScripts developer Daniel Jalkut reveals all.
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