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		politician on March 15, 2015 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: The importance of user interface, illustrated by t... Have you tried docopt? The usage string is a DSL which makes it painless to create command-line programs with great (and synchronized) help text. Check out an example: https://github.com/politician/azb.go/blob/master/src/cmd/azb...

gnoway on March 15, 2015 [–]

I think you just illustrated the point of a prior blog post[0] linked from this one.

[0] http://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/programming/GoGetopt...

politician on March 15, 2015 | [–]

Wow, that post is spot-on; thanks.

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