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6.20.1 Philosophy

The purpose of optparse is to make it very easy to provide the most standard, obvious, straightforward, and user-friendly user interface for Unix command-line programs. The optparse philosophy is heavily influenced by the Unix and GNU toolkits, and this section is meant to explain that philosophy.


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