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by floodyberry- 3572 days ago
Floating point isn't legible either, nor are are bitfields, opcodes, instruction formats, etc. That's why we use computers to do the 'right thing' and format the data if we need to read it.

I don't have a preference for either one, but using little-endian when most/every processor you will be targeting supports it makes more sense than using big-endian + extra work on x86 just so you can read it with less effort in a memory dump.