Re: AWK As A Major Systems Programming Language

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Subject	Re: AWK As A Major Systems Programming Language
Date	2024-09-02 18:31 +0200
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On Mon, 2 Sep 2024, Johanne Fairchild wrote:

>> When I graduated from university, I wanted to become a programmer, but
>> at that time, only 10+ years of experience was wanted on the job
>> market, so life decided that I should work in infrastructure/system
>> administration instead.
>
> I always thought of system administration as a programming job.  In
> fact, a fun one.  Initially I wanted to be a UNIX system administrator.

Yes, having worked as one, I can see that. For me, the pleasure was
always in automation, and the quick feedback loops. I would work on a
piece of the infra-stack, automate as much as possible, and you can do
that in small cycles of days and weeks, instead of the endless bug
hunting the developers at one of my jobs did, in some kind of million+
line CAD software. I always got the feeling talking with them, that
their job would never end, and you would only see small,
micro-incremental improvements stretching over years.

Mean while, I'd happily automate my systems, deployments, reports,
statistics etc. so yes, some kind of programming always was there during
my time as a linux/unix system administrator.

> But my professional life began in a web world when most jobs I could get
> were all web related.  Deep web projects always involve UNIX
> programming, but I was never really hired for deep projects.  As a
> result, I kept doing web programming to pay bills.  So I had to study
> and invent projects in order to study the other sides of computer
> science so I would not spend my life with technology and culture I did
> not even appreciate.  That actually paid off.  For the first time in my
> life, I can say I really like my job.

Happy to hear it! =)

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AWK As A Major Systems Programming Language Ben Collver <bencollver@tilde.pink> - 2024-08-18 00:28 +0000
  Re: AWK As A Major Systems Programming Language not@telling.you.invalid (Computer Nerd Kev) - 2024-08-19 08:04 +1000
    Re: AWK As A Major Systems Programming Language Richard Kettlewell <invalid@invalid.invalid> - 2024-08-19 08:40 +0100
      Re: AWK As A Major Systems Programming Language Richard Kettlewell <invalid@invalid.invalid> - 2024-08-19 18:24 +0100
      Re: AWK As A Major Systems Programming Language D <nospam@example.net> - 2024-08-19 19:42 +0200
      Re: AWK As A Major Systems Programming Language not@telling.you.invalid (Computer Nerd Kev) - 2024-08-20 07:43 +1000
  Re: AWK As A Major Systems Programming Language Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2024-08-18 23:36 +0000
    Re: AWK As A Major Systems Programming Language Johanne Fairchild <jfairchild@tudado.org> - 2024-08-27 19:43 -0300
      Re: AWK As A Major Systems Programming Language yeti <yeti@tilde.institute> - 2024-08-27 23:50 +0042
      Re: AWK As A Major Systems Programming Language Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2024-08-27 23:36 +0000
        Re: AWK As A Major Systems Programming Language Johanne Fairchild <jfairchild@tudado.org> - 2024-08-27 21:05 -0300
      Re: AWK As A Major Systems Programming Language D <nospam@example.net> - 2024-08-28 16:25 +0200
        Re: AWK As A Major Systems Programming Language Anton Shepelev <anton.txt@g{oogle}mail.com> - 2024-08-28 18:37 +0300
        Re: AWK As A Major Systems Programming Language Johanne Fairchild <jfairchild@tudado.org> - 2024-08-30 18:56 -0300
          Re: AWK As A Major Systems Programming Language D <nospam@example.net> - 2024-08-31 11:56 +0200
            Re: AWK As A Major Systems Programming Language Johanne Fairchild <jfairchild@tudado.org> - 2024-08-31 12:28 -0300
              Re: AWK As A Major Systems Programming Language D <nospam@example.net> - 2024-08-31 22:34 +0200
                Re: AWK As A Major Systems Programming Language Johanne Fairchild <jfairchild@tudado.org> - 2024-09-01 22:52 -0300
                Re: AWK As A Major Systems Programming Language Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2024-09-02 03:36 +0000
                Re: AWK As A Major Systems Programming Language D <nospam@example.net> - 2024-09-02 09:45 +0200
                Re: AWK As A Major Systems Programming Language Johanne Fairchild <jfairchild@tudado.org> - 2024-09-02 11:30 -0300
                Re: AWK As A Major Systems Programming Language D <nospam@example.net> - 2024-09-02 18:31 +0200
                Re: AWK As A Major Systems Programming Language Johanne Fairchild <jfairchild@tudado.org> - 2024-09-02 17:31 -0300
                Re: AWK As A Major Systems Programming Language D <nospam@example.net> - 2024-09-02 23:08 +0200
                Re: AWK As A Major Systems Programming Language yeti <yeti@tilde.institute> - 2024-09-02 23:15 +0042
                Re: AWK As A Major Systems Programming Language D <nospam@example.net> - 2024-09-03 10:09 +0200
            Re: AWK As A Major Systems Programming Language candycanearter07 <candycanearter07@candycanearter07.nomail.afraid> - 2024-09-02 23:50 +0000
              Re: AWK As A Major Systems Programming Language Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2024-09-03 02:09 +0000
                Re: AWK As A Major Systems Programming Language candycanearter07 <candycanearter07@candycanearter07.nomail.afraid> - 2024-09-05 15:10 +0000
              Re: AWK As A Major Systems Programming Language D <nospam@example.net> - 2024-09-03 10:11 +0200
  Re: AWK As A Major Systems Programming Language Anton Shepelev <anton.txt@g{oogle}mail.com> - 2024-08-21 19:18 +0300
    Re: AWK As A Major Systems Programming Language Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2024-08-21 23:59 +0000

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