If this was a comics style blog it would start like this: They both stood there, the clean and virtues super-hero MVC and his arch-enemy the dirty and corrupt spaghetti-design-pattern... they were both aware that only one of them will prevail. The fact is that real life is more complicated than that, writing code is an on-going process and sometimes you need to “get things done now” instead of “get things done right”. The important thing is to keep in mind the important notions that lays behind MVC...