That bottom-up tinkering is kinda how CS started in the US, as observed by Dijkstra himself: https://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/EWD/transcriptions/EWD06xx/EWD611.

That bottom-up tinkering is kinda how CS started in the US, as observed by Dijkstra himself: https://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/EWD/transcriptions/EWD06xx/EWD611.html https://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/EWD/transcriptions/EWD06xx/E... Ideally we want theoretical foundations, but sometimes random explorations are necessary to tease out enough data to construct or validate theory.