[ale] [JOBS] Sr. Systems Administrator positions

[Mike Fletcher]

Geoffrey wrote:
> Jeff Hubbs wrote:
>   
>> I don't see any gratuitous "ripping" going on; the posting raises 
>> legitimate questions which in no way counter the degree to which the 
>> posting is an "opportunity someone might need." 
>>
>> Are you proposing that no job posting on the ALE list should be 
>> commented upon?  And even though this posting, as Aaron said, appears 
>> legitimate, what are we to make of 5 years of Red Hat administration 
>> being considered "Senior" or any other head-scratcher that appears in a 
>> posting (like, say, "20 years of Perl programming" or "C, C+, and C++")?
>>     
>
> Actually, you could have 20 years experience with C.  I started using C 
> in 1987 it's been around since the early 70's. I believe Larry Wall had 
> already written and was using Perl in the late 80s as well, although I 
> don't know about it's general availability at that time.
>   
Pink camel was published in '91[1] and I'm pretty sure I diddled with
4.0.18 (4.0.16? whatever the stable release was for a bit before 4.0.36
came out at any rate) around then so I'm certainly creeping up on
something like 20 years.


Man I'm getting old . . . Git offa mah lawn you dagburn'd pesky kids!


[1] http://history.perl.org/PerlTimeline.html