[ale] Programming Languages and Personality?

[Leam Hall]

On 07/14/17 06:03, DJ-Pfulio wrote:
> On 07/14/2017 05:36 AM, Leam Hall wrote:
>> An interesting note on O'Reilly's 2017 Ops survey results:
>>
>> "21 percent of Ops professionals know the programming language Go."
> 
> But 99% don't know what "Ops professionals" means.

As has been said better:

"There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics." -- 
Originator unknown.

“It's tough to make predictions, especially about the future.” -- Yogi Berra

I've made guesses about the future before and base my current career 
learning on expected future events. Sometimes they work out, like Linux 
vs Netware, Solaris, or HP/UX. Some times not. In this case I think 
there's a lot of momentum building behind Go and it's moving into 
different spaces. The theory is that it will be a systems language like C.

I'm not sure what the future holds for the SysAdmin career. Certainly 
change with things like Docker (Go) and Ansible (Python). Certainly 
retain Bash but add Python and Git. Maybe add Go. From a "get and stay 
hired" perspective being able to talk the language of the other teams 
has helped greatly.