" Discussed a bit (along with some others) in a footnote in chapter 5 of my book "Deterring Democracy[". ] [3] References Chomsky, Noam . Understanding Power: the Indispensable Chomsky. New York: the New Press, 2002. Herman, Edward S. and Chomsky, Noam. Manufacturing Consent: the Political Economy of the Mass Media. America Model Next Rerun Top New York: Pantheon Books, 1988. Herman, Edward S. "

" The 'model-view-controller' paradigm introduces the controller object in between the view (the GUI class) and the model (the object) to communicate between the other two objects. The actual implementation of the controller object can vary quite a bit, but the idea of an object to 'transform' events to changes in data and execution of methods is the essence of this pattern. What does "event driven" mean? Was there ever an application which did not respond to user events. . ? Just because an application responds to events does not mean it is "event driven". Event driven means it spends much of its time waiting for an event and then takes action if and when an event occurs. Contrast this with some programs that do not respond to events at all, but simply do their job and terminate. America Next Top Model Cycle For example, an operating system command to display the current time. It displays the time and is done; it does not wait for events. "