Re: Object Class Violation

Neil Schneider wrote:

> 
> I'm a sysadmin, not a programmer. I am too busy to learn to write code
> well, I leave that to experts. Too bad so many programmers think they
> are good SysAdmins, when they really aren't. :-)

Neil,
You got me laughing, dude :-) Thanks.

Being a good sysadmin and a good programmer is not something which is 
mutually exclusive.

If you consider or label yourself as a "Senior UNIX Administrator", but 
you can't code in C, then you have taken an over-inflated view of your 
own skills. The entire UNIX culture evolves around C coding. You 
especially can not call yourself a "geek", and at the same time be 
unable to write code.

When it comes to the point where you are suggesting to people how to 
redesign software or specifying how to implement new interfaces, your 
time to start coding is way overdue...

  Think of having a 25 year old backseat driver in your car, who has no 
driving license yet, but tells you how to drive. I'd stop and put him 
behind the wheel and get into the backseat myself and start nagging!

  Don't be a backseat software architect. Fire up your editor of choice 
and start experimenting with small modifications to code. Learn how to 
read man pages for C functions. Learn how to create a patch from your 
modifications. Learn how to send your patch to the mailing list, 
hopefully with a little more brief explanation than Scientica! (Thanks 
for the patches, Fredrik, you long-winded dude.) :-)

BR,
--
mike