[ale] Programming Languages and Personality?

[Jerald Sheets]

You should join LISA and commiserate with other sysadmins that are asking themselves the same questions you are.

—j


> On Jul 14, 2017, at 6:19 AM, Leam Hall <leamhall at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> 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.
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