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by kbp 2646 days ago
> MVC is a 20 year old pattern

More like 40; it's from late 70s Smalltalk.
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gilbetron 2646 days ago
Can confirm, I worked at a Smalltalk firm in 1995 and was taught MVC then, and was explained to how it was an old pattern.
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e12e 2644 days ago
Indeed. The original paper is still well worth a read:

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

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