[150588] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Programmers with network engineering skills
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Michael Thomas)
Mon Feb 27 21:32:01 2012
Date: Mon, 27 Feb 2012 18:30:57 -0800
From: Michael Thomas <mike@mtcc.com>
To: Randy Bush <randy@psg.com>
In-Reply-To: <m24nubu261.wl%randy@psg.com>
Cc: North American Network Operators' Group <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On 02/27/2012 06:23 PM, Randy Bush wrote:
> 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.
>
I agree. Programmers aren't born understanding some fields and not
others. In my case, I didn't have a clue about networking coming out
of school but picked it up because I thought it was neat, and there
was something intoxicating about the smell of the printed out RFC's.
Mike, weird i know
