[ 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…”