Dave Winer's Moore's Law for software?

I'd argue that a computer science undergrad today should learn C and assembly language, for a complete education, but most of the code the programmer of the future will write will be interpreted and running on a high level virtual machine that optimizes programmer effectiveness.

Dave's a man after my own heart. If any of my students are reading this then go read Dave's article, check out his site, read some of his archived material. You'll learn a helluva lot. I did - and still do. Dave's also the architect of Frontier and Usertalk which together make my favourite programming environment.