Django does a good job of being realistic about what it is doing: "If you’re hungry for acronyms, you might say that Django is a “MTV” framework – that is, “mo

Django does a good job of being realistic about what it is doing: "If you’re hungry for acronyms, you might say that Django is a “MTV” framework – that is, “model”, “template”, and “view.” That breakdown makes much more sense." - http://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/faq/general/ http://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/faq/general/ The article also doesn't mention that MVC is also traditionally used to implement asynchronous UIs, which the web is not suitable for (e.g. there is no push mechanism for the model to update the views. Instead views must use AJAX to poll for updates to model.)