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by techpeace 3953 days ago
Could you name a major web framework that implemented the MVC pattern prior to Rails?
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dagw 3953 days ago
Spring? (Queue discussion on what is and isn't Real MVC(tm))

I will however agree that Rails probably should take most of the responsibility/blame for really bringing MVC to the forefront of web development

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techpeace 3953 days ago
Right you are! I didn't realize it had beaten Rails to the punch by a year. But yes, I will stand by my claim that Rails was responsible for popularizing the notion in the wider web development community.
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davelnewton 3946 days ago
The "wider web development community" was using MVC; Struts and Spring built more websites than Rails did for several years.
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davelnewton 3946 days ago
You never said anything about web framework before, you said MVC. That's a different discussion. Although we were using MVC in Struts 1 back in what, 2001?
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