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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…”

Complete
Story

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