[layer8]

> it originally referred to the “mental model” of the user.

Do you have a source for that? I agree that that’s a useful way to think about MVC (somewhere downthread someone wrote that the model should be like a headless version of the application, which is similar), but I’m curious about the original expressions of that idea.

[danabrams]

Source: https://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/document?repid=rep1&type=pdf&d...

The source is Trygve Reenskaug, the originator of the idea.

[danabrams]

Since the link won't open for some, here's the relevant bit (the first two lines of the abstract of the paper linked to):

"MVC was conceived in 1978 as the design solution to a particular problem. The top level goal was to support the user's mental model of the relevant information space and to enable the user to inspect and edit this information."

[andrekandre]

for some reason i couldn't open the link... maybe t got truncated?

[danabrams]

It's a pdf. It opens for me when clicking. Are you on a browser that can't easily open PDF?

[andrekandre]

hmm when i tried again it worked,thanks!