Re: [dev] stest review

From: Rob <robpilling_AT_gmail.com>
Date: Sat, 11 Feb 2012 13:42:55 +0000

On Sat, Feb 11, 2012 at 02:04:43PM +0100, Christoph Lohmann wrote:
> Hello.
>
> Anselm R Garbe wrote:
> > If you can write a simplistic for() loop to process your command line
> > flags, your interface can't be that hard to grasp for the user.
> > Otherwise he will look up the weirdo flags quite often in your man
> > file and develop hate against your tool over time ;)
>
> That is plain wrong.

I disagree

> Users will rather be irritated, if the commandline argument hand-
> ling is different in every application. They then *have* to read
> the sourcecode for finding out how arguments are handled.

What Anselm is on about, is that it prevents the vibe-coder from
adding less and less flags, keeping the simplicity low, not from
having a different style for each application.

Rob
Received on Sat Feb 11 2012 - 14:42:55 CET