In a message of Fri, 15 Jun 2007 04:42:50 PDT, "Dave LeCompte (really)" writes: >"Laura Creighton" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> made a distinction: > >> MVC is a pattern, but not a design pattern. > >I'd be interested to know why you say it isn't a design pattern. > >I see MVC mentioned on page 4 of my copy of the Gang of Four book on >design patterns, but their discussion of it suggests that most of their >book focuses on finer-grained details. > > >Speaking of design patterns books, I really enjoyed reading O'Reilly's >"Head First Design Patterns" - a little jazzier than Gamma et al. > >-Dave LeCompte
In the corner of the world I live in, the phrase 'Design Patterns' only refers to the ones in the Design Pattern Catalog -- i.e. chapters 3, 4, and 5. There are only 23 of them (unless you enclude the ones Vlissides found in Pattern Hatching). MVC -- which I had forgotten was mentioned on page 4 -- is considered too big a thing to be one pattern. You find lots of the 'design patterns' as part of Smalltalks MVC. I suppose other corners of the world have other linguistic conventions. Laura