ESSENTIAL skills for various settings

[weby]

Originally Posted by giganerds

-6 or -5 is more suitable. When you are a programmer the most important competence is your logic (whatever the method you use to program). Each language is a way to you express your logic, and defaults is (problably) a variable topic between then. Actually I program heavy in Perl, PHP, PHP-GTK and javascript and I'm confortable in make programs with all of them.

Edit: -5 or -6 in the worses cases!

That is beacause you have familiarity with them and they are really very similar (my guess is about -2, except perhaps javascript bit more from the others)

But if you add Lisp, Cobol and Forth [not to mention Intercal.. 8) ] you may get really high unfamiliarity penalties(and a headache).

[vicky_molokh]

Originally Posted by giganerds

I quite sure this is a very simple task with +2, but I suspect to ensure because I a Linux security specialist and Linux system engineer and this task is quite trivial and basic routine of my job.

+2? It could be +6 for all I know - it's not something I wonder if I can do again upon reinstalling.I doubt either of us has even a 5% failure rate at this task. I certainly don't have a 20% failure rate on it. Not without an Unfamiliarity penalty, anyway.

Originally Posted by giganerds

So you have Computer Programming (GBB files). GURPS take a very broad view of computer skills, I think that certains skills like these is Average (perhaps easy in rarely cases).

Weird, but maybe. I doubt I have a point there (probably only a Familiarity), but who knows.

Originally Posted by giganerds

-6 or -5 is more suitable. When you are a programmer the most important competence is your logic (whatever the method you use to program). Each language is a way to you express your logic, and defaults is (problably) a variable topic between then. Actually I program heavy in Perl, PHP, PHP-GTK and javascript and I'm confortable in make programs with all of them.

Edit: -5 or -6 in the worses cases!

The point about logic is true. I wonder if it would be proper to model those skills on a structure similar to Ritual Magic (i.e. defaults exist but are limited, lots of Techniques etc.).

[giganerds]

Originally Posted by weby

That is beacause you have familiarity with them and they are really very similar (my guess is about -2, except perhaps javascript bit more from the others)

But if you add Lisp, Cobol and Forth [not to mention Intercal.. 8) ] you may get really high unfamiliarity penalties(and a headache).

Yes, I study Cobol and Machine Languages on the graduate :-)

In fact, I made contact with 20 languages in my life, some of them trully beasts. Is that what I mean "-5 to -6 in the worses cases" edit quote.

Javascript is the more strange of all I mention in the prevoius post.

[giganerds]

Originally Posted by Molokh

+2? It could be +6 for all I know - it's not something I wonder if I can do again upon reinstalling.I doubt either of us has even a 5% failure rate at this task. I certainly don't have a 20% failure rate on it. Not without an Unfamiliarity penalty, anyway.

:-D - yes, perhaps +6 could be right.

Originally Posted by Molokh

Weird, but maybe. I doubt I have a point there (probably only a Familiarity), but who knows.

The point about logic is true. I wonder if it would be proper to model those skills on a structure similar to Ritual Magic (i.e. defaults exist but are limited, lots of Techniques etc.).

I too. I quite sure there is a excellent post about computer skills put here before I joined the list.