[150589] in North American Network Operators' Group
RE: Programmers with network engineering skills
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Holmes,David A)
Mon Feb 27 21:47:04 2012
From: "Holmes,David A" <dholmes@mwdh2o.com>
To: Randy Bush <randy@psg.com>
Date: Mon, 27 Feb 2012 18:46:07 -0800
In-Reply-To: <m24nubu261.wl%randy@psg.com>
Cc: North American Network Operators' Group <nanog@nanog.org>
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But my point is that each person who is capable to do so generally chooses =
their life's work, after working in and trying out several capacities, and =
this is extremely common in IT environments where a person could have cycle=
d through programming, system admin, dba, networking, security, etc. For me=
, I prefer networking, and even a substantial raise would not get me to des=
ign and write computer programs again. Life is short, networking profession=
als generally are in high demand, and are in networking because they like i=
t. Yes Perl scripting may become a temporary, necessary evil at some point,=
but if the subject of coding comes up, many will move on.
-----Original Message-----
From: Randy Bush [mailto:randy@psg.com]
Sent: Monday, February 27, 2012 6:23 PM
To: Holmes,David A
Cc: North American Network Operators' Group
Subject: Re: Programmers with network engineering skills
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
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