Is it sad that I've actually written VAX assembly before? Ah, college. I still find myself floored by the fact that someone, somewhere thought it was absolutely necessary to have an assembly language instruction for calculating polynomials. Sigh. VMS was running on top, by the way. :P

For those of you who are unaware, RIT has Computer Engineering, Software Engineering, and Computer Science departments in addition to the IT department which Phelps is a professor for. In essence, he's not teaching about software development. That's not to say he can't make some good points, or that his classes are worthless, but remember where the words are coming from.