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Article #73094Re: Who wants long options anyway? (Re: Poll: syntax of long options)
From: Scott Schwartz
Date: Wed, 06 Nov 1991 18:20
Date: Wed, 06 Nov 1991 18:20
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One possible advantage of long names is that there can be consistency across applications, where a small number of descriptive names are used by many programs. You have to pick really good names, of course. Single letter options have a harder time of it. Multics is said to have given thought to this issue.
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 1025b4,5071a1d1ccc07109 X-Google-Attributes: gid1025b4,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 1991-11-06 10:58:33 PST Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!gmdzi!zeus.ieee.org!sdd.hp.com!wupost!psuvax1!news From: schwartz@roke.cs.psu.edu (Scott Schwartz) Newsgroups: gnu.misc.discuss Subject: Re: Who wants long options anyway? (Re: Poll: syntax of long options) Message-ID: <?obH5jkm3@cs.psu.edu> Date: 6 Nov 91 18:20:19 GMT References: <1991Oct29.142256.5232@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> <ABRAHAM.91Oct29173322@freja.iesd.auc.dk> <DAMIAN.CUGLEY.91Nov4142743@pierrot.prg.ox.ac.uk> <1991Nov6.163614.942@nntp.uoregon.edu> Sender: news@cs.psu.edu (Usenet) Organization: penn state university, computer science Lines: 6 In-Reply-To: haertel@euclid.uoregon.edu's message of 6 Nov 91 16:36:14 GMT Nntp-Posting-Host: roke.cs.psu.edu