Hi Nicolas,
Sure, historical reasons count, but why stopping at micro-processor era and not a few centuries back? If only european would have understood and adopted the true arabic number notation, our world would be dominated by little endian anyway ;)
If that were the case, I would be fine with little endian. My complaint has more to do with the confusion it caused for what I see as very little gain.
Speaking of communications, I note that the least significant bit in a byte is still sent first on a serial line, ethernet included, while we prefer sending most significant byte first in a 32-bit word, what a mess!
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