You've heard of variables in PowerShell, right? How about reference variables? Maybe not. The reason is because a scripter can generally get by without them, but they do still have a purpose.

Types in Microsoft .Net can be either value type or reference type. While value types are stored generally in the stack, reference types are stored in the managed heap. A value type derives from ...

You might know that Java passes by value, but it helps to understand why. Here's what happens when you pass mutable and immutable object references in Java. Many programming languages allow passing ...