System Admins Should Know How To Code

Posted by Unknown on Monday October 22, 2012 @11:29AM from the helps-to-have-a-beard-too dept.

snydeq writes "You don't need to be a programmer, but you'll solve harder problems faster if you can write your own code, writes Paul Venezia. 'The fact is, while we may know several programming languages to varying degrees, most IT ninjas aren't developers, per se. I've put in weeks and months of work on various large coding projects, but that's certainly not how I spend most of my time. Frankly, I don't think I could just write code day in and day out, but when I need to develop a tool to deal with a random problem, I dive right in. ... It's not a vocation, and it's not a clear focus of the job, but it's a substantial weapon when tackling many problems. I'm fairly certain that if all I did was write Perl, I'd go insane.'"

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Re:Sounds like a plan! by Anonymous Coward · 2012-10-22 13:05 · Score: 0, Offtopic

I've been a linux sysadmin for decades, I already know all this. I'm just sick of know it all business types trying to tell those of us that know more about sysadmin work than the snot nosed punk who discovered perl last week is trying to hark for the industry.
No thanks. They wont pay honest wages, then they get less than honest work effort from me.