[TUHS] Systematic approach to command-line interfaces [ meta issues ]

[Warner Losh]

On Sat, Jul 31, 2021 at 4:37 PM Jon Steinhart <jon at fourwinds.com> wrote:

> Warner Losh writes:
> >
> > The flip side to this is that libraries can be debugged once, while
> inline
> > code like the above needs to be deugged over and over....
>
> Well, no.  Inline code doesn't need to be debugged over and over.  It
> doesn't
> have to be written from scratch every time.  While in theory your point
> about
> libraries is correct, it hasn't seem to have worked out in practice.
> Better
> in C than in node.js, but there have been plenty of spectacular bugs found
> in
> old C libraries recently.
>

The large number of times I've had to replace inline code like you've
quoted with
getopt to fix the irregularities in command line parsing suggests that we
differ on
this viewpoint.

Warner
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