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BOTTOMSUP

So I guess I'm arguing for
Bottom Up approaches to
life here.

The arguments against this
are legion among
computer science types.
           
They pay lip service    
to Nelson's idea of                But this method has met
software design: have one          with limited sucess for
person figure it all out, and      Nelson, if only because the
let some team of flunky            flunkies have a habit of
programmers code it up.            losing interest, or missing
                                   the point.

But more than this:        
you can get lost in        
abstractions this          
way.  And waste a          
lot of time                                                     
thinking about                                                  
things that can't         (I doubt that this is                 
really be done            Nelson's problem.)   
practically.                                   
                                               
Working bottom up makes it                     
more likely your                               
intermediate results will                      
be worth something.                            
Possibly you can sell them,                    
or use them as demos, and                      
finance the whole project
this way.  Or if you're
interrupted, maybe you'll       (This may very well be one
have a partial solution to      of Ted Nelson's problems.)
your problems that you can
live with.
   
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