DCI - Data, Context and Interaction - Successor to MVC?

Question

What is the best description of Data, Context and Interaction (DCI) to pitch it to an organization?

It\'s created by Trygve Reenskaug, the creator of the MVC-pattern.

Answer 1

A good question and an often occurring question. The short answer is that it's a paradigm on it's own based upon the founding ideas of OO by Kay, Dahl and others. It was created by Trygve Reenskaug as you note with several goals in mind. One of them being tha aim of making IO operations first class citizens of the program. (not IO as in disk operations but all communication between two different objects). Another important goal of DCI is to split what the system does (functionality/behavior) from what the system is (data)