[mambodog]

Sounds like Django's "MTV" naming of those concepts: http://www.djangobook.com/en/2.0/chapter05.html#the-mtv-or-m...

[re_todd]

Yeah, I've started learning Django this week, and one of the first confusing questions I asked myself is "why are there so many templates?". Then I realized a template in Django is like a normal view in Rails or other frameworks.