I have a minor quibble. Windows took its cli from MSDOS, which didn't care where the options were, so long as they started with a forward slash, and still doesn't. It didn't matter if you needed two passes to parse the command line when you only allowed 128 bytes of command.
I've never quite forgiven the young Bill Gates and company for going along with IBM's wish to use forward-slash to identify options, as IBM used on their mainframes. It forced them to use back-slash for the directory separator, and I grumble at them every time I get it wrong switching betweeen Unix and MSWindows.
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