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Re:How Old School C Programmers Process Arguments by coldtea on Sunday January 28, 2018 @06:43AM (#16250879)
>Yet I am embarassed to admit that honestly I have never understood the benefits of flexibility with passing arguments.

It's about not having to remember what goes before what, if you can put them like this or that, etc ON TOP of remembering the arguments themselves.

>All my programs are very simple and straightforward without heaps fo options.

If your programs are basically ./a.out then perhaps you're not the target audience for getopts?

Re:How Old School C Programmers Process Arguments by pjmlp on Sunday January 28, 2018 @10:35AM (#16251662)
Easy to sort out with an help flag.
Re:How Old School C Programmers Process Arguments by coldtea on Sunday January 28, 2018 @11:18AM (#16251859)
Easy, but also one more needless impediment to just using the damn thing.