On 25 Nov 2005 at 16:44, Christopher Smith wrote:
[quoting me:]
> >> Surely MakeMusic is not maintaining two separate codebases, one
> >> big- endian and one little-endian.
> 
> Am I the only one who finds this reference to Gulliver's Travels
> amusing? Remember the Lilliputians almost having a civil war over
> big-end and little-end (of an egg, not of computer code?) Now there
> may be domestic strife over codebases...

I'm pretty certain that the choice of those terms for bit order was 
done in full knowledge of the literary allusion. I've certainly 
always been aware of it.

-- 
David W. Fenton                        http://www.bway.net/~dfenton
David Fenton Associates                http://www.bway.net/~dfassoc

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