You said this better than I did below. You are right. I emerged from college an eager guy who went straight into a production environment. First gig? "Oh, we s

You said this better than I did below. You are right. I emerged from college an eager guy who went straight into a production environment. First gig? "Oh, we see you have Perl, awk, sed, Bash on your CV.. We need you to write some code to get this and that data from the server logs and then spit it out in this and that format, but we don't want this particular info." I about crapped myself the first day on the job. Fortunately, my team lead knew what he had asked for and coached me through how to be a useful nix admin. This led me to being more interested in coding than setting up nix boxes and getting them to talk to databases. I fell in love with regex stuff and still love it. Perl and Python are still my go-tos with regards to this. I still write small (25-30 line) programs in awk. Sadly, I have a job now where they all love PowerShell, so I've been "forced" to use it for certain Windows tooling tasks. Learning Go on my own now. I find R and F# fascinating and might take this on in time.