hjwidmaier@[...].de (Hans-Joachim Widmaier) writes:

>  Well, I did this long before I've heard of GNU and even before our
>  BDFL started working on a new language called "Python." The C library
>  getopt() just didn't do all I wanted (allow options after arguments
>  [this is on thing I really dislike about python's getopt -- it doesn't
>  allow that; (...)

Of course, the negative consequence is the inability for such an
application to take normal (non-optional) arguments that happen to
start with an option character, or the option parsing has to provide a
way to quote such an occurrence.

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