Words to strike fear into the heart of every programmer: The tar format is one of the oldest archive formats in use. ... it is ugly — built as layers of hacks

Words to strike fear into the heart of every programmer: The tar format is one of the oldest archive formats in use. ... it is ugly — built as layers of hacks on the older format versions to overcome their limitations. ... This article is directly inspired by my proof-of-concept work on new binary package format