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 _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [email protected] http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
