My Views on the 3 Versions of Flash AS - Interactive Programming - Feitian Zhu Creative

My Views on the Three Versions of Flash AS (2008-6-17 1:17:55 [Source: www.birdpig.com])

My views on the three versions of Flash AS:

AS1 is pretty good as a descriptive language. It's like pseudocode; just type in a random English sentence, and it actually runs! Although its functionality is quite weak.

AS2 is still pretty decent for small projects. It feels like JavaScript being prematurely forced into Java's mold, with relatively rigid functionality that’s enough to mess around with. However, when the project gets large, it struggles to keep up and tends to falter easily.

AS3 is quite good for project programming. It resembles a younger brother of Java and C#, where defining a few classes feels quite comfortable. Despite this, it has many bugs, consumes a lot of memory, and tends to crash easily.