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by vidarh 9 days ago
> most 'modern' UI tools adhered to standards defined by the Amiga team for cmdline usage and scripting.

One minor example of the usability was that the ReadArgs() call was fairly extensively used within a year or two after it was introduced and meant that the "?" command line option for help worked "everywhere" and would give a machine parseable, semi-typed options list (annotations like "/T" for toggle, "/N" for number etc.)