Blizzard of 78 at Michigan State carrying my punch cards to the computer building. Uphill both ways.
"Fortran using punch cards & card readers (who remembers those these days?)" -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Brown, Ken F. Sent: Monday, August 31, 2015 3:31 PM To: [email protected] Subject: RE: [powershell] Add-Member question LOL >>> Being old (school), I have a tendency to declare variables, and initialize >>> them. Holdover from my early 1980s programming courses. (told you I was old ...) Me too...However, I was doing that in the 1970's...Cobol & Fortran using punch cards & card readers (who remembers those these days?). I knew people who dropped a stack of 500 cards on the floor and spent hours putting them back in order. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer_programming_in_the_punched_card_era -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Michael Leone Sent: Monday, August 31, 2015 9:17 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [powershell] Add-Member question Sent by an external sender ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This email has an alternate reply address set. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- On Mon, Aug 31, 2015 at 8:59 AM, Brown, Ken F. <[email protected]> wrote: > cmdlets (from Quest) I was using. (BTW: one of the tricks to help > memory usage in-flight is to set a variable to $null - which isn't the > same as "" - this apparently helps the garbage collector) I found that out, yes. About the difference between "" and @null, I mean - hadn't heard that about the garbage collection. Being old (school), I have a tendency to declare variables, and initialize them. Holdover from my early 1980s programming courses. (told you I was old ...) I believe the latest Quest versions are 1.6; the file date says 2012 .... I still like them, and find them easier to use (if perhaps less efficient) than the MS cmdlets. And (luckily) I haven't had a memory issue using them, probably because I don't usually write very complicated scripts. ================================================ Did you know you can also post and find answers on PowerShell in the forums? http://www.myitforum.com/forums/default.asp?catApp=1 ================================================ Did you know you can also post and find answers on PowerShell in the forums? http://www.myitforum.com/forums/default.asp?catApp=1 ================================================ Did you know you can also post and find answers on PowerShell in the forums? http://www.myitforum.com/forums/default.asp?catApp=1
