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Re: Programmers with network engineering skills

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Randy Bush)
Fri Mar 2 17:36:51 2012

Date: Sat, 03 Mar 2012 07:35:52 +0900
From: Randy Bush <randy@psg.com>
To: Carlos Martinez-Cagnazzo <carlosm3011@gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <4F50E9A7.8050708@gmail.com>
Cc: NANOG <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org

> In my experience the path of least resistance is to get a junior
> network engineer and mentor he/she into improving his/hers programming
> skills than go the other way around.

and then the organization pays forever to maintain the crap code while
the kiddie learned to program.  right.  brilliant.

Always code as if the guy who ends up maintaining your code will be a
violent psychopath who knows where you live. -- Martin Golding

randy


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