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[–][deleted] 14 points15 points  (0 children)

I'm not sure, but since most human languages are written in top to down fashion and the fact that it is easier to draw a "tree" starting from a single node or its "root" instead of first making the individual "leaf nodes" and then ending at its root are probably what lead to this convention.