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From: knutson@ut-ngp.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.cog-eng
Subject: Re: standards, tools, history: options=?
Message-ID: <440@ut-ngp.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 28-Mar-84 19:34:57 EST
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Posted: Wed Mar 28 19:34:57 1984
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Organization: Comp. Center, Univ. of Texas at Austin
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Now for an opinion from the other side of the fence.  I started out in
a CDC world running a homegrown NOS lookalike operating system.  CDC
uses positional and keyword parameters (xxx=yyy) and keywords may
appear anywhere on a line.  Well, this is great except when you start
to provide several options to a command.  NOS finally fixed the problem
by having some flaky capability to continue a command on the next line.
We have yet to do this for our system.  By the way, have you ever heard
of UT-2D?  No?  Lucky dog.  Anyway, I prefer the tersness of 1 character
flags all bundled together.  Who wants to type:

cc input=foo.c output=foo define=4bsbd define=localmachine=ut-ngp -optomize library=curses library=termlib
-- 
Jim Knutson
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