Command line arguments or reading file

I need to process 10 values. Which way would be better? Getting them as command line arguments or instead reading from a file? Using C by th开发者_如何学运维e way.

If you make them as command-line arguments, then you could do it both ways... i.e.

 a.out 1 2 hello abc ... 

or

a.out \`cat file_with_arguments.txt\