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Why do long options start with two dashes? (2019)
Around 1990, Richard Stallman (RMS) and I were writing the GNU C library getopt() and he wanted to extend it to support long (multi-character) option names for user-friendliness. He considered Unix…
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| Submitted | Title on HN | Points | Comments |
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| Apr 8, 2021 | Why do long options start with two dashes? (2019) by spyh | 356 | 246 |
