ASP.NET MVC reminds me of old Classic ASP spaghetti code

Question

I just went through some MVC tutorials after checking this site out for a while. Is it just me, or does MVC View pages bring back HORRIBLE flashbacks of Classic ASP spaghet

Answer 1

Because the people behind MVC really liked ASP/JSP pages and want to implement it all over again. They appear to hate:

• ViewState
• Existing ASP.Net Controls
• Clean Html
• Existing User Controls
• Postbacks

They appear to love:

• Re-inventing the wheel
• REST-ful urls

MVC essentially is a way of forcing a separation of code from presentation. If a developer actually cared enough, this could be easily acheived with normal Asp.Net. It is possible to punk the whole "separation" system anyway, so I don't really see the point.

That being said, there is some merit to it.. but not enough to outweigh the problems. MVC version 3 I'm sure will be awesome.

And before anyone marks me down -1, see how many MVC questions I've answered. I know what i'm talking about.

UPDATE If you are taking your separation seriously, upon looking at it, chaiguy1337 is onto a good thing. String Template looks great because it does not allow any code in your front end! In my opinion, the ASP.net MVC team dropped the ball on MVC.