2012/3/2 Randy Bush <randy@psg.com>
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.
+1 Although, I've seen the opposite where a brilliant developer writes wonderful code, leaves and you are left with a similarly difficult situation since there are no more programmers in the department and no brilliant developers willing to do programming that requires in depth knowledge of networking.
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