Typical netadmin probably writes some minor scripts at most, or at least this is what I have seen in corporations and in a medium-ish ISP. On the other hand, n

Typical netadmin probably writes some minor scripts at most, or at least this is what I have seen in corporations and in a medium-ish ISP. On the other hand, network administration is not that far away from what sysadmins do (tracking inventory of things, monitoring, collecting logs, creating and distributing some configs), and there are several sysadmins who mainly write code (old school system programmers), so it just makes sense.