Originally Posted by darksoul

Its not rocket science, I can code anything in just about any language
if I want to, however that doesn't make me a good programmer.
Its about the mindset, programmers are usually more structured they can think ahead and have the patience to work with the same code for years.
As a sysadmin I'm not used to do any planning, I start to write the programs and evolve the code as needed.
I find it hard to believe you can excel at both but ya never know.