[fallingfrog]

Ohhkay. I think I start to see what you mean- in other words MVC is not supposed to describe an architecture in the sense of database-client or something like that but just a style where we attempt to separate concerns into business logic vs UI. And we encapsulate data in the classic object-oriented way where we always try to access the data through a set of functions which are written ideally so that no matter what inputs the functions get the data is never allowed to be in an inconsistent state, and the business logic goes in that layer so that the data never violates business rules / rules of accounting/ etc.

[ADanFromCanada]

Replace "style" with "pattern" and "written" with "logically grouped together and written" and you've nailed it.

Very impressive interpretation and summarization of what I wrote!