Re: Advancing from Unix Sysadmin to Programmer

From: jpd (read_the_sig_at_do.not.spam.it)
Date: 05/26/04 

Date: Wed, 26 May 2004 14:37:46 +0000 (UTC)

On 2004-05-21, Bjorn Borud <borud-news@borud.no> wrote:
>
> I don't really understand why system administration and programming
> has to be two completely different disciplines.

The disciplines do overlap but they certainly are of different
content and scope. The PoV from each is different enough to thorougly
flabbergast someone from ``the other side'' when getting hit with it
unprepared. The same is true of management(, WRT probably everything
management deals with and vv.), of course. But I digress.

While learning about both, like learning multiple computer languages,
can be a very good thing, you'll want to split the actual day to day
operation of both fairly strictly. Otherwise you'll get chaos and
confusion, which makes both jobs harder, needlessly so. 

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