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Re: Programmers with network engineering skills
From: Tei <oscar.vives () gmail com>
Date: Wed, 7 Mar 2012 13:06:44 +0100
On 27 February 2012 23:23, Jay Ashworth <jra () baylink com> wrote:
----- Original Message -----From: "Owen DeLong" <owen () delong com>I think you're more likely to find a network engineer with (possibly limited) programming skills. That's certainly where I would categorize myself.And you're the first I've seen suggest, or even imply, that going that direction instead might be more fruitful; seemed to me that the skills necessary to make a decent network engineer would support learning programming better than the other way round -- though in fact I personally did it the other way.
I agree. And I am just a programmer. Part of it, is that our job is to obscure implementation details to these in higuer levels. We think hard to build stuff, so other people don't have to. If theres a program that create a conexion, and that conexion can break, we silently repeat the re-conexion part, so these that use the program ignore these problems and can live happy. A bad programmer will show a message "Conexion break, please connect again". Having the human manually pressing the "connect" button again. I have no words for how lame is that. So we hide implementation details for us, and for others. Programmers that write compilers hide implementation details to others. Designers of CPU's microcode hide implementation details to mere assembler programmers. -- -- ℱin del ℳensaje.
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