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- From: geoffg@novasco (Geoff Galitz)
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- Subject: Re: Info on being a Systems Programmer/Analyst?
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- Date: 26 Mar 1996 06:28:58 GMT
- Organization: The Santa Cruz Operation, Inc.
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- Well, I won't get into the "What is a System Programmer" debate,
- but I will tell you that "User Support Analysts" and "Programmer
- Analysts" do where I work.
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- As for the math, don't worry about it. I've only needed algebra.
- I talked about this subject with one of our experienced support
- folks who agreed that algebra is all that is really necessary
- unless you are doing advanced applications development.
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- Most of the programming I do is at the shell level. Learning
- shell programming will get you far ahead of the rest of the
- pack of "system programmers." I've built system and network
- wellness monitors in Korn shell which requires knowledge of
- the OS more than anything else.
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- We'll program in C to build new appliations for internal use,
- for porting programs, or for "fixing" other applications that
- we cannot tune for one reason or another (usually at the
- network level). This is about 30-40% of the time for the
- acknowledged programmers in the group.
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- We spend the rest of our time:
- - implementing new systems
- - training users and developers how to use an OS
- - analyzing(sp) performance
- - integrating new systems of all types
- - charting the course of the infrastructure.
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