Use Long Options in Scripts

Re:Use Long Options in Scripts by 01HNNWZ0MV43FF on Saturday March 22, 2025 @12:42AM (#43443616)

Programs are read more often than they're written, and on a scale of decades all programmers are novices. So I try to optimize my code to be obvious to novices

What's wrong with GNU? they automatically wrong or something?

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Re:Use Long Options in Scripts by userbinator on Saturday March 22, 2025 @02:35AM (#43443976)

So I try to optimize my code to be obvious to novices

That's the attitude which is responsible for making software the way it is today: mediocre.

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Re:Use Long Options in Scripts by cedilla on Saturday March 22, 2025 @08:56AM (#43445403)

Software is mediocre today? You should have seen it back in the day. It was a brittle, arcane mess.

Software isn't as exciting any more, but that excitement isn't gone because newbs don't have to look up what -O stands for anymore. It's because it's wildly more reliable.

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