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Sridhar Ayengar
ploopster at gmail.com
Fri Oct 12 09:26:05 CDT 2007
Dan Sikorski wrote:
> Sridhar Ayengar wrote:
>> Hear hear! There was a damn good reason I was a CS major and not an IS
>> major. System administration is fun, as long as no-one is bothering
>> you. Writing code is fun period.
>>
>> In my current job, being a technical lead, I need to wear my sysadmin
>> hat, my architect hat and my programmer hat. By far, the programming is
>> the most fun. I'd say the architect/analyst hat is the least.
>>
> I think I'm pretty much the opposite. I don't find programming to be
> very much fun at all. Maybe I have yet to learn a language that I like,
> or have not learned one well enough to really be comfortable with it,
> but I have always found programming to be tedious and frustrating. On
> the other hand, I usually find the problem solving aspects of system
> administration to be the most fun.
It's not so much that you have to find a language. You have to find a
*programming style* you like. Once you do that, the language is kind of
irrelevant.
Peace... Sridhar
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