Endianness
Posted: March 8th, 2007 | Author: saldarji | Filed under: technology | 3 Comments »I’ve spent much of the week here at the client site talking about slick things like Endianness. When I was in meetings, I kept thinking that they were talking about Big Indian, Little Indian. Being Indian, I was really confused. Of course, they were saying “Big Endian, Little Endian.”
The etymology is interesting:The choice of big-endian vs. little endian has been the subject of flame wars. The very term big-endian comes from Jonathan Swift’s satiric novel Gulliver’s Travels, where tensions are described in Lilliput and Blefuscu because a faction called the Big-endians prefer to crack open their soft-boiled eggs from the big end, contrary to Lilliputian royal edict. The terms little-endian and endianness have a similar ironic intent. – wikipediaLooks like I have 18 more weeks of tech-speak in front of me. The project is actually pretty interesting, despite being completely unrelated to my past experience/strengths.
I’m flying back today, through Dallas, since XNA is the hardest airport to fly into in America.
w00t!
Hahahah, that’s a funny post.
I’m sure we’ll all be learning lots of stuff on this project.
I lost a couple days of my life once learning the hard way that C is little endian while Java is big endian (or was it the other way around?).