If you have a command with lots of arguments, parent’s approach makes a lot of sense. 20 arguments that you can copy out of the shell into your program. And when you want to make changes and test via the shell, your copy and paste is also easy.

I’ve seen bugs where some forgot to add quotes and commas to split some arguments and the program did the wrong thing. Parent’s approach avoids that. However, things like spaces in quoted strings are not correctly handled.