[150587] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Programmers with network engineering skills
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Randy Bush)
Mon Feb 27 21:24:07 2012
Date: Tue, 28 Feb 2012 07:53:02 +0530
From: Randy Bush <randy@psg.com>
To: David A Holmes <dholmes@mwdh2o.com>
In-Reply-To: <922ACC42D498884AA02B3565688AF9953405313118@USEXMBS01.mwd.h2o>
Cc: North American Network Operators' Group <nanog@nanog.org>
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programming is not being able to write a hundred lines of unreadable
perl.
a real programmer can be productive in networking tools in a matter of a
month or two. i have seen it multiple times.
a networker can become a useful real progammer in a year or three.
randy