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Bruce Fountain wrote:

> Mark Addinall <maddinall@iprimus.com.au> wrote in message
> news:<3DE9D06D.70403@iprimus.com.au>...
>> The better way to join the industry is to join as an entry
>> level programmer, and do a few years at that before deciding
>> on a Sys admin path.
> 
> This is probably a stupid thing to say in a forum like this, but
> why would anyone choose sysadmin if they could be a programmer?

Umm..horses for courses I suppose ?

What's a programmer anyway?, a propellor head COBOL guru or some clown let 
lose with VB for a few months?

Point, click, drag ain't programming   :)

I just think that "hard" skills are still relatively rare out there. In 
SysAdmin land you have the MSCE's, in Progamming land you have the 
"click/drag/drop" brigade....both hopelessly useless and ignorant of the 
fundamentals and mostly unable to function out of the strict confines of 
one particular vendors flawed interpretation of something.

I guess it's the difference between writing a symphony for the philharmonic 
and banging out a 30 sec "doof doof" choon on your ProTracker clone.

Real coders use VI or EMACs, not me though...after BASIC, PASCAl, C and C++ 
it all got ahead of me, I'll admit it and I personally think Hell contains 
a few million lines of code you'd have to debug somewhere while the 
vultures eat your kidneys.  :)