Why are views not called controllers?

[chyld....@gmail.com]

I'm new to django, but have experience with asp.net mvc. In asp.net
mvc, controllers receive and process the request from the user and
then once the data is ready to present, it's handed off to a view. In
django a view receives and processes the request and then sends the
data to a template to render. Basically the same thing is happening
in both frameworks, but since django is using the model-view-
controller pattern, why are the controllers called views and the
templates called views?

Thanks,
-Chyld

[Masklinn]

http://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/faq/general/#django-appears-to-be-a-mvc-framework-but-you-call-the-controller-the-view-and-the-view-the-template-how-come-you-don-t-use-the-standard-names

[Karen Tracey]

http://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/faq/general/#django-appears-to-be-a-mvc-framework-but-you-call-the-controller-the-view-and-the-view-the-template-how-come-you-don-t-use-the-standard-names

Karen

[Jacob Kaplan-Moss]

Also see: http://www.pointy-stick.com/blog/2008/11/30/removing-model-view-controller-straitjacket/

Jacob

[chyld....@gmail.com]

Thanks Jacob. That was a good read. The point being don't get hung
up on acronyms, but if you are inclined to get hung up, you could call
django an MTV framework.

-Chyld


On Mar 6, 10:46 am, Jacob Kaplan-Moss <jacob.kaplanm...@gmail.com>
wrote:
> Also see:http://www.pointy-stick.com/blog/2008/11/30/removing-model-view-contr...
>
> Jacob