Lars Wirzenius on Nostr: I'll add that one thing that helps me navigate Unix command line interfaces is the ...
I'll add that one thing that helps me navigate Unix command line interfaces is the hundreds of times I've written command line parsing in raw C, without using helper libraries. Originally on MS-DOS, where my C implementation didn't have getopt.
It wasn't always fun, but it made me sensitive to the challenges and that helps me understand better the choices made by others who're parsing the command line.
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