> Rails' idea of MVC was never really MVC as MVC was originally envisioned. It's worth noting that as originally envisioned, the controller directly dealt with

> Rails' idea of MVC was never really MVC as MVC was originally envisioned. It's worth noting that as originally envisioned, the controller directly dealt with the keyboard and mouse. I would argue that not only is Rails not MVC as originally envisioned, something that reanimated the original controller would probably suck. MVC as done in Cocoa on the other hand, is really good. Stock, reusable controllers that simply mediate communication between models and views. If any MVC-style web framework had something like this, it would be pretty amazing.