Have a look at the date of the document... although the content is serious, the way it's discussed might be a bit in the line of these: <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/April_Fools'_Day_Request_for_Comments" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/April_Fools'_Day_Request_for_C...</a>
To this day I think that article mixed up the terms, causing confusion ever since.
"Little-endian" to me implies that the least significant byte of a word is at the end of a byte sequence, but it's the other way round.<p>I understand that it's from Gulliver's Travels where it's about which end to start breaking an egg from - but without knowing this you can easily end up getting this wrong.
While I prefer to crack my eggs from the little end, I insist on big-endian byte order. Sadly, modern CPUs are mostly made by barbarians (i.e. Little-Endians).
I actually did a writeup on this: <a href="https://www.technicalsourcery.net/posts/on-endianness/" rel="nofollow">https://www.technicalsourcery.net/posts/on-endianness/</a><p>TLDR: Little endian is better for most data situations (and incidentally is a more natural ordering for humans), so it's good that it won out in the end.