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by kazinator 1866 days ago
The XWindow system used -long -opts long before that.
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BiteCode_dev 1866 days ago
The XWindow system is a collection of the worse api in the world so it's no surprise.

But the vast majority of modern command line tools agree on --long.

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gimboland 1866 days ago
...aaaand it's more than 20 years old, so yeah, that kinda agrees with the point that it took us a long time to stop doing that because it's confusing.
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