Tom Christiansen wrote a piece on p5p today advocating for Getopt::Long use.

Some excerpts:

I *really* like Getopt::Long...I cannot say enough good things about it to do it the justice it deserves... The only problem is that I just don't use it enough. I bet I'm not alone. What seems to happen is that at first we just want to add--oh say for example JUST ONE, SINGLE LITTLE -v flag. Well, that's so easy enough to hand-hack, that of course we do so... But just like any other piece of software, these things all seem to have a way of overgrowing their original expectations... Getopt::Long is just *wonderful*, up--I believe--to any job you can come up with for it. Too often its absence means that I've in the long run made more work for myself--or others--by not having used it originally.

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