One of my complaints about reading computer science and/or programming books in the early 2000(or late 1990s?) was the contradictory definitions of MVC in books

One of my complaints about reading computer science and/or programming books in the early 2000(or late 1990s?) was the contradictory definitions of MVC in books I read at the time. I think one book even indicated that MVVM(I think) was often referred to as MVC as an explanation for why this happened. So it understandable people still have conflicting definitions. Here is a random example[1] I pulled up of someone one thinking MVC is not unidirectional but MVVM is. I am not commenting on the correctness of this impression. > MVVM is better than MVC/MVP because of its unidirectional data and dependency flow. Dependency is one way,... [1] https://dev.to/vtsen/mvc-vs-mvp-vs-mvvm-design-patterns-443n#:~:text=MVVM%20is%20better%20than%20MVC,app)%20are%20based%20on%20MVVM https://dev.to/vtsen/mvc-vs-mvp-vs-mvvm-design-patterns-443n....