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Listen to me rant about ActionScript, part 2

So we all know people build some amazing things using ActionScript: it’s a flexible language that provides some syntactic sugar to make developer’s lives easier. That sugar, however, gives me, umm, toothaches, some of which I talked about already. So now, I’ll rant about some other idiosyncrasies of AS3 that make it an interesting language [...]

Listen to me rant about ActionScript, part 1

So I’ve been working on a new feature for Flex Builder (Gumbo), and like always I can’t really tell you what it is yet.  But, I can say it’s support for a new language feature in ActionScript that rhymes with “Schmector.” Reading over the ActionScript grammar reminds me how much I dislike so many syntactic elements in the [...]