Joel on davka

A few days ago Joel Splosky posted an article about why (some) software methodologies are bad in which he said that he has trouble explaining a certain concept that comes across more clearly with Hebrew terminology. Being both a technical writer and sufficiently proficient to understand the (simple) terms he was using, I decided to take a crack at it.

His followup, based on a response from an Israeli, was much better than mine (also different in some ways), which is presumably why he chose to publish it. But he complimented mine, which suggests to me that I didn't completely miss the mark.

( read his original article first or this won't make sense )