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floatboth on Dec 26, 2019 | parent | context | favorite | on: Installing A/UX on the Quadra 610 (2018)

If only http://docopt.org was invented and standardized and widely adopted in the 80s…

> good UNIX programmers know to use getopt(3C) libc function

Well, when writing in C. People don't really use this from other languages.

_mdpn on Dec 26, 2019 [–]

We use getopt style command line parameter parsing in at least Java, Perl, Python, and BASH at work, so I wouldn't say that this is unused.

We're also primarily a UNIX shop at work, so that might be part of it.

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