<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@whitequark" class="u-url mention">@<span>whitequark</span></a></span> Is it big endian because they were porting from a big endian architecture and didn't want to fix endianness bugs, or because the lead developer was a true believer of the superior endianness, and rejector of the heretical endianness? (Or I guess to avoid converting to network byte order, maybe.)</p>