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by qwertyuiop924 3675 days ago
The name arc has namespace collision problems. Not in software in general (I never complained about somebody calling their language elm - that's Cantrill's job), but in archivers in particular. Arc was the format that directly preceded zip, pkzip being the program that pk started selling after it was discovered that pkarc's source code was copied verbatim from the source for the original arc utility.