{"id":8011,"date":"2007-05-03T12:01:58","date_gmt":"2007-05-03T12:01:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.msdn.microsoft.com\/powershell\/2007\/05\/03\/powershell-description\/"},"modified":"2019-02-18T13:16:40","modified_gmt":"2019-02-18T20:16:40","slug":"powershell-description","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/powershell\/powershell-description\/","title":{"rendered":"PowerShell Description"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Following Slashdot&#8217;s review of Bruce&#8217;s book (<a href=\"http:\/\/amazon.com\/o\/ASIN\/1932394907\/ref=s9_asin_image_1-2288_p\/104-2585818-3635158?pf_rd_m=ATVPDKIKX0DER&amp;pf_rd_s=center-4&amp;pf_rd_r=0NE726R9S0KBWYCBEYWY&amp;pf_rd_t=101&amp;pf_rd_p=278843701&amp;pf_rd_i=507846\">PowerShell in Action<\/a> ), a ton of people chimed in with comments.  One of the most interesting as <a href=\"http:\/\/books.slashdot.org\/comments.pl?sid=233133&amp;cid=18968151\">this one<\/a> from nacturation:\n<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:12pt\">Imagine someone gave you some library code, but to use the code you couldn&#8217;t pass in variables, objects, or whatever. Each function in the library takes one input &#8212; a string. The return from the functions are also one output &#8212; a string. You need to convert this to\/from any meaningful format in order for you to use it. That is bash.\n<p>Now imagine the same thing, but instead of passing in strings you could pass in\/out native data types, full objects, other methods, etc. That&#8217;s PowerShell.<br \/>\u00a0\n<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Well said.\n<\/p>\n<p> Jeffrey Snover [MSFT]<br \/>Windows Management Partner Architect<br \/>Visit the Windows PowerShell Team blog at:    <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.msdn.com\/PowerShell\">http:\/\/blogs.msdn.com\/PowerShell<\/a><br \/>Visit the Windows PowerShell ScriptCenter at:  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/technet\/scriptcenter\/hubs\/msh.mspx\">http:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/technet\/scriptcenter\/hubs\/msh.mspx<\/a>\n\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Following Slashdot&#8217;s review of Bruce&#8217;s book (PowerShell in Action ), a ton of people chimed in with comments. One of the most interesting as this one from nacturation: Imagine someone gave you some library code, but to use the code you couldn&#8217;t pass in variables, objects, or whatever. Each function in the library takes one [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":600,"featured_media":13641,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8011","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-powershell"],"acf":[],"blog_post_summary":"<p>Following Slashdot&#8217;s review of Bruce&#8217;s book (PowerShell in Action ), a ton of people chimed in with comments. One of the most interesting as this one from nacturation: Imagine someone gave you some library code, but to use the code you couldn&#8217;t pass in variables, objects, or whatever. Each function in the library takes one [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/powershell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8011","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/powershell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/powershell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/powershell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/600"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/powershell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8011"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/powershell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8011\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/powershell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13641"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/powershell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8011"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/powershell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8011"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/powershell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8011"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}