Dynamic language

[Simon]

On 16/03/2012 02:28, Nick Sabalausky wrote:
> "James Miller"<james at aatch.net>  wrote in message
> news:mailman.733.1331853568.4860.digitalmars-d at puremagic.com...
>>
>> I hate the fact that Flash games are created the way they are. For
>> one, it's impenetrable to try and learn properly, I had so much
>> trouble figuring out how to do things properly, you can attach scripts
>> to almost any object, but sometimes it might be shared over all of the
>> same objects, and other times only on that instance, depending on how
>> you've placed them on the canvas.
>>
>> I probably wrote some terrible code when I started making Flash games,
>> and now Actionscript is so foreign to me that i can barely understand
>> where to start.
>>

> One thing I learned though, is that if you're going to make something in
> Flash, your best bet is to use as *little* of what Adobe provides as
> possible:

You're being rather unfair to Adobe. It was Macromedia that where the 
original perpetrators of flash; Adobe brought Macromedia in 2005.
I guessing that they only brought Macromedia for the market share rather 
than because they thought flash was actually any good.

I suffered through a module of Flash/Director around 1999. Action script 
was fecking awful but Director actually wasn't that bad.
It was pretty easy to do some neat things so it was easy to see why it 
was so popular with *web devs* and mouth breathing marketing types.

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