Jano_OddKidd,
do you deliberately try to make things more complicated than they are to try and make yourself look clever? how many mapping programs do you know of that you need to know hex for?
he's not talking about learning to map a specific ecu that requires all sorts of shit to work with- he's talking about learning the principles of mapping.
and if jesse can map using megaesquirt, i'm pretty sure that he's capable of mapping any other ecu with any other software - he would just have to learn how to use it.