optparse-applicative quick start

When I need to write a command-line program in Haskell, I invariably pick Paolo Capriotti’s optparse-applicative library.

Unfortunately, the minimal working example is complicated enough that I cannot reproduce it from memory, and the example in the README is very different from the style I prefer.

So I decided to put up a template here for a program using optparse-applicative. I am going to copy it into all of my future projects, and you are welcome to do so, too.