[fracus]

I don't like these ambiguous titles. From the title I thought I was going to read that byte order doesn't matter when in fact the title should be "a computer's byte order is irrelevant to high-level languages". At least, state the fallacy in unambiguous terms one sentence right away. In any case, was an interesting read.

[ddingus]

I came here to write the same. I learned a thing or two about how higher level languages work.

Two areas I find it does matter: Assembly language where bytes are parsed or sorted, or transformed in some way by code that writes words

, and

binary file representations when written on a little endian machine and read by a big endian machine.