RE: Programmers with network engineering skills

["Holmes,David A" <dholmes () mwdh2o com>]

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 cycled through 
programming, system admin, dba, networking, security, etc. For me, I prefer networking, and even a substantial raise 
would not get me to design and write computer programs again. Life is short, networking professionals generally are in 
high demand, and are in networking because they like it. 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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