[150596] in North American Network Operators' Group
RE: Programmers with network engineering skills
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (George Bonser)
Tue Feb 28 03:15:31 2012
From: George Bonser <gbonser@seven.com>
To: Noon Silk <noonslists@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 28 Feb 2012 08:14:35 +0000
In-Reply-To: <CADt_azYrMv_O-C2zjK5s72dMBs2m51eU3dKen2=VmpUh--kizw@mail.gmail.com>
Cc: NANOG <nanog@nanog.org>
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> Noon Silk said:
>
> Just a practical comment here; part of your problem may be offering c
> and php together. I don't want to start a war, but I know that at the
> very least all the c programmers I know would considered php to be ...
> "horribly offensive". So, maybe seperating out these two roles (c and
> php programming) will help you.
>=20
> It is definitely true (speaking as a programmer, C# for several years)
> that seeing +PHP would instantly turn me off. Further, I'm sure that
> almost anyone who is still programming in c these days would have the
> level of networking knowledge you care about (and can train on top of).
PHP tends to mesh well with things like perl programmers. It is basically a=
scripting language. Anyone using D ?