[150565] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Programmers with network engineering skills
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jay Ashworth)
Mon Feb 27 17:24:07 2012
Date: Mon, 27 Feb 2012 17:23:06 -0500 (EST)
From: Jay Ashworth <jra@baylink.com>
To: NANOG <nanog@nanog.org>
In-Reply-To: <70AEFA48-0F1A-472D-8659-CD853854430E@delong.com>
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----- Original Message -----
> From: "Owen DeLong" <owen@delong.com>
> I think you're more likely to find a network engineer with (possibly
> limited) programming skills.
>
> That's certainly where I would categorize myself.
And you're the first I've seen suggest, or even imply, that going that
direction instead might be more fruitful; seemed to me that the skills
necessary to make a decent network engineer would support learning
programming better than the other way round -- though in fact I personally
did it the other way.
Cheers,
-- jra
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