In order to understand what a command line argument is, we should show an example of how a program is normally launched. In Windows, when you start a program by clicking on it's icon, or shortcut ...

Building upon this foundation, we will now look at how to create more complex applications, along with how to parse and use arguments passed to Ada applications on the command line (CLI).

A Simple python-ldap Application The best way to learn is to write an example program, so let's write a small and complete program to fetch some specific contact information from an LDAP server.