On Sun, Mar 3, 2024 at 12:38 PM Aaron <aaronscohen(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Having written the first versions of getopt(3),
getopt(1), and associated
man pages around 1979 ...
I always thought that this was a brilliant piece of engineering. In less
than 70 lines, it was a clever, but not obtuse, bit of code to handle the
most common option/flag/switch usages that pervaded the Unix ecosystem at
the time. Thanks for that!
Source:
https://www.linux.co.cr/unix-source-code/review/1985/1103.html