OSDir: An Interview with Tom Lord of Arch

[ Thanks to Steve Mallett for this link. ]

"OSDir: What was the motivation behind writing Arch?

"Tom Lord: First, when I was a working student, years and years ago, some of the people I respected, and was trying to learn from, were interested in a topic they called 'programming in the large': the question of how to manage programming projects involving hundreds or thousands of programmers. I became interested in that problem and revision control is a subset of that problem..."

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