I never really thought about it that way, but it is so true.

Being a DBA can sometimes be outright boring and that's why I still do programming on top of being a DBA. It just amazes me how all my old programming techniques fit right into these new frameworks (well just .Net as that is the only one I currently use.

Yes, my days with Pascal (and Assembler:hehe:) taught me a lot and yes, programmers should start learning by using one of these 3rd generation languages but that is a big ask these days.