>>28
Not trolling.
GNU make is older than Zip, but alternatives to Zip have more advantage over it than (*)make has to GNU make.
You can't say that cmake, imake or qmake is objectively and in every aspect better than GNU make.
You can however say it about 7zip compared to Zip.
>>27
Machine capable of being programmed on is also capable of compressing/decompressing formats better than Zip.