David Geary wrote:
> If I'm not mistaken, I believe
> that even VisualWorks Smalltalk, which is widely regarded the standard bearer
> for MVC, eventually moved to a Model/View+Controller architecture.
The MVC metaphor was part of SmallTalk-80, from Xerox, ca. 1983. There was
an entire volume (the third) of the SmallTalk Language Definition devoted to MVC,
because it (and the whole "object thing") was hard for people 20 years ago to get
their heads around. VisualWorks, several years later, declared that the 'pure'
implementation was unnecessarily complex, and simplified it. I don't think they
ever delivered a full MVC implementation. Then too, they had the added difficulty
of making it run on a Wintel box. ;)
Ray Allis (who still misses his Xerox 1108 "Dandelion")
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