[124574] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Books for the NOC guys...
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Michael Dillon)
Fri Apr 2 16:08:59 2010
In-Reply-To: <4BB62DC8.4030400@mtcc.com>
Date: Fri, 2 Apr 2010 21:08:03 +0100
From: Michael Dillon <wavetossed@googlemail.com>
To: Michael Thomas <mike@mtcc.com>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
>> In short: less zealotry, more pragmatism and a realisation that each
>> language has its own strengths and weaknesses. =A0Bad code is bad code i=
n
>> any
>> language.
>
> All true, but I'd still say there's a special rung in hell for bad perl.
And it is exacerbated by the huge volume of bad PERL books out there and th=
e
fact that entry level NOC monkeys often get the idea that PERL is cool and
therefore learn it as their first and only language without a lot of critic=
al
thinking.
Also, please note that the original request was for books, or in other word=
s
documents containing guidance. I supplied the name of such a document
providing guidance using Python.
If someone wanted to play the game and trump me, then they would
quote the title of another book, or at least a substantial website tutorial=
,
that uses another programming language.
--Michael Dillon
