[150569] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Programmers with network engineering skills
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Doug Barton)
Mon Feb 27 17:38:11 2012
Date: Mon, 27 Feb 2012 14:37:12 -0800
From: Doug Barton <dougb@dougbarton.us>
To: Jay Ashworth <jra@baylink.com>
In-Reply-To: <4F4C0431.1010308@dougbarton.us>
Cc: NANOG <nanog@nanog.org>
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On 2/27/2012 2:31 PM, Doug Barton wrote:
> then sure, network guy -> "coder" is usually a safe and easy path.
Sorry, looking at this again it reads a lot more derogatory on paper
than I meant it to. There is a lot of value in being able to automate
repetitive tasks ... my point was simply that doing that is a different
development model than working on a larger scale project; where scope,
structure, etc. come into play.
Doug (who either needs more caffeine, or less ...)
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