27 Feb
2012
27 Feb
'12
9:30 p.m.
On 02/27/2012 06:23 PM, Randy Bush wrote:
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.
I agree. Programmers aren't born understanding some fields and not others. In my case, I didn't have a clue about networking coming out of school but picked it up because I thought it was neat, and there was something intoxicating about the smell of the printed out RFC's. Mike, weird i know