I think basic command-line argumentation tokenization is handled by the C runtime (you pass an entire command-line to CreateProcess, WinMain gets an untokenized command-line, wildcards aren't ...

The former ultimately runs the command “figlet” with arguments “foobar” and “bar baz” on the local machine. The second does the same, except with ssh being involved in the middle.

What do you guys think the "standard" format and parsing of command line arguments should be? (When you are writing the program that consumes the arguments) Obey your platform guidelines.