I code like this in php, python, ruby, node and golang:

    include 'app';
    include 'models';
    include 'templates';

    $data = models::getCustomers()
    $view = templates::parse('customers',$data)
    app::show($view)

What's so ugly about that? I bet you I can build 90% of sites on the web with that basic snippet of code. In any language...