I very much doubt it. It's been that way for what, 6000 to 8000 years of recorded human history. It will probably be that way for the next 6000 to 8000 yrs.

I program therefore I am.

I made it that way to avoid endianness and other architectural differences. This makes it really easy to steal code and programmers for my empire.

Beelzebub, I thought I told you to stop impersonating me, fucking asshole. Just wait till you get back to the office, oh boy. And for the parent, what the hell are we supposed to do with the souls of VB programmers? I don't have time for electrotherapy patients.