[Nitro] Consistency

[James Britt]

Jonathan Buch wrote:

> 
> Sidenote:
> 
> This brings me to a thought I had since I was last in a course in
> university here:  They tought us the MVC concept and it was a little
> different from what we do with Nitro.

MVC came about in Smalltalk, and since then assorted variations have 
evolved.

http://st-www.cs.uiuc.edu/users/smarch/st-docs/mvc.html

http://heim.ifi.uio.no/~trygver/themes/mvc/mvc-index.html

There seems to be a much tighter coupling among view and controller than 
is appropriate for Web apps.


Some interesting thoughts here:


http://wardley.org/computers/web/mvc.html


(Essay question: How does MVC reconcile with REST? )


Also, some Django-heads I know have told me that Django is MVP: Model, 
view, presenter.


http://www.martinfowler.com/eaaDev/ModelViewPresenter.html
http://www.martinfowler.com/eaaDev/uiArchs.html

-- 
James Britt