<OriansJ`>mihi: well certainly required before you have a bootstrapped tar to use but I believe gash-utils provides a tar implementation. <mihi>OriansJ`, as the intro to the Arctic Code Archive mentions, tar archives can be inspected or audited by humans, but most humans prefer to do it in its unpacked form :) <OriansJ`>mihi: actually I think humans prefer programs that fit in a single small file <mihi>if you don't use this as an argument to use minifiers on source code, I agree <OriansJ`>Code is for humans to read and encode understanding and incidentially for computers to run. <OriansJ`>I am completely serious when I said: all code must be able to be understood by 70% of the population of programmers. If the code can not be understood by that volume, it needs to be altered until it satisfies the above requirement. <OriansJ`>Literally it should be a bug report when any bit of it isn't completely obvious to a programmer ***nckx is now known as AMDinc
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