Re: [boost] [gui] Shoulders of Giants

From: Dave Harris (brangdon_at_[hidden])
Date: 2004-12-23 07:03:26

In-Reply-To: <20041222211651.GD2616_at_[hidden]>
alan-boost_at_[hidden] (Alan Gutierrez) wrote (abridged):
>     I'd like to take some time and study what has gone before.
> [...]
>     I've advocated the use of a CSS layout component to render
>     the View-Controller aspect [...]

Are you aware of the variations on MVC, in particular 
Model-View-Presenter? MVP has been so successful in Smalltalk that I 
consider MVC obsolete. Taligent's whitepaper is here:
  http://www.carfield.com.hk/document/software_design/MVP.pdf

and there is more material at Object Art's Smalltalk site:
http://www.object-arts.com/EducationCentre/Overviews/ModelViewPresenter.ht
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-- Dave Harris, Nottingham, UK