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2022-02-03T08:16:24+05:30

On Little Endian & Big Endian

The Secret Life of Programs: Understand Computers — Craft Better Code (Jonathan E. Steinhart)

  • Your Highlight on page 204 | location 3707-3709 | Added on Thursday, 12 August 2021 07:11:41

The term endian—based on the royal edicts in Lilliput and Blefuscu in Jonathan Swift’s Gulliver’s Travels regarding which was the proper end on which to crack open a soft-boiled egg—is used to describe the difference.