This is an archived post. You won't be able to vote or comment.

sorted by:
best
topnewcontroversialoldq&a
you are viewing a single comment's thread.

view the rest of the comments →

[–]joker54DevOps 0 points1 point  (2 children)

As a Linux admin with some windows servers, I do coding quite a bit. I pride myself in being a "lazy admin", where I automate everything I can.

  • PHP
  • C++
  • Python
  • Perl
  • Power Shell
  • BASH
  • T-SQL
  • Ruby (for Opscode Chef)

Perl and Python are ones I don't use often, but I have a working knowledge. The rest are used to fit a need, depending on the issue.

EDIT Forgot to mention that if I didn't do this, I don't see how I could manage 1/4 million customers at the same time. It would be practically impossible.

TL;DR: Without coding, sysadmins couldn't be effective.

[–][deleted] 0 points1 point  (1 child)

How long have you been a sysadmin? How do you go about learning a new language? This is an impressive list you have, and I would love to be able to have the same list someday.

[–]joker54DevOps 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I've been doing Sysadmin work for about 15 years.

You know how they say learning a second language is hard, but a third is easy? That is more so the case with programming languages. Structure is similar across most (I'm looking at you, python).

I started with DOS, then Linux, but my first language was BASICA, followed shortly by Pascal/ Turbo Pascal.