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From: john@frog.UUCP (John Woods)
Newsgroups: comp.arch,comp.misc,comp.lang.misc,comp.protocols.misc
Subject: Re: "big endian" and "little endian" - first usage for computer
Keywords: dump little-endian strings
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Date: 24 Jan 89 05:42:00 GMT
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In article <7193@csli.STANFORD.EDU>, jkl@csli.STANFORD.EDU (John Kallen) writes:
> In article <1102@l.cc.purdue.edu> cik@l.cc.purdue.edu (Herman Rubin) writes:
> >There does not seem to be any support from "natural" languages for the
> >little-endian approach.
> What about Danish:     fem og halvfirsindtyve (75 (my Danish is rusty))
> Or norwegian:	       en og femti (51). This fooled me once into believing
> 		       one could rent a room in Paris for Fr 1.50... :-)
> Or better yet, German: Zwei und Vierzig  (42!)

Ah, but consider the German for 1988: neunzehn hundert acht und achtzig
(nine-and-ten hundred eight and eighty).  Middle-endian.  AHA!  Germans
are PDP-11s!

:-)
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Presumably this means that it is vital to get the wrong answers quickly.
		Kernighan and Plauger, The Elements of Programming Style