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On Sunday 06 June 2004 07:15 pm, you wrote:

> And I'll put it even better: if we struggle to build a "dual-head"
> GUI (text + graphics), we end up stuck at 2 interfaces. Hooking in a
> third one is much harder than doing it the other way around, which
> is: design the machine under, and then program as many views you
> need.
>
> Model-view-controller comes to my mind now, and I think it's
> appropriate.

I agree in concept. MVC is meant for a slightly different kind of 
application, but the basic idea is sound. If someone wants a HTML/CGI 
UI, a decoupled interface won't stop them.

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David Johnson
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