You don't seem to grasp the point of my comment. The format mangling probably didn't help. I'm saying that the term MVC has been diluted and misused to the poi

You don't seem to grasp the point of my comment. The format mangling probably didn't help. I'm saying that the term MVC has been diluted and misused to the point that it no longer carries a specific -- and therefore useful -- meaning. It has become web 2.0 part deux. Maybe you think that input->process->output is too simplistic to be the answer to every software engineering problem? In the most general and abstract terms, no. Likewise, what value is to be gained from discussing application architecture in excessively general and abstract terms?