> OK, I know that Java also has mental parameter options like that ('-version', note the *single* hyphen followed by, gasp, a word!), but I just dismissed it as

> OK, I know that Java also has mental parameter options like that ('-version', note the *single* hyphen followed by, gasp, a word!), but I just dismissed it as weird enterprise-ism. I think "mental" is being too kind about java. $ java -version and $ java --version both work, their outputs are different, and `-version` goes to STDERR whereas `--version` goes to STDOUT.