Timeline for Positional arguments vs options in a command-line interface
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| Feb 20, 2018 at 10:38 | comment | added | David Arno | MS DOS commands, just like Unix commands, consistently use a mixture of positional and optional arguments. There is a recommended style choice: do what the majority of commands do and mix the two styles. | |
| Feb 20, 2018 at 9:25 | comment | added | Yury Schkatula | Answer: there is no such recommended style choice. Just consider your goals according to the cases described above. | |
| Feb 19, 2018 at 22:35 | comment | added | whatsisname | You haven't answered the question. | |
| Feb 19, 2018 at 20:40 | history | answered | Yury Schkatula | CC BY-SA 3.0 |