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>There is Brad Appleton's libcommand.

That's what he did when he decided that Parseargs wasn't complex enough
for everything he wanted to do.

>Oh yeah.  It's written in C++.  You might think that's a drawback.

Parseargs does most of the same thing and is written in C.