I really like OOP, like Javascript style prototyping and look forward to
use a combination of both in AS3. Having said that, I really was not
impressed with AS2.0, mostly because of some of it's bugs that made it
work in odd ways (mostly related to scoping issues, which are only
partially solved with the Delegate Class).
So for me I usually prefer either AS1.0, or (I imagine, since I haven't
gotten around to it yet) AS 3.0.
It's nice not to be locked into either OOP, or procedural, or typed or
untyped. It seems like AS 3.0 will let me do the one I want to at the
moment (without being buggy like AS 2.0). :-)
Kevin N.
James wrote:
I think that the mixture of prototype based and class based OOP is
really interesting. I think prototype based object orientated
languages (such as AS1.0 and JavaScript) are really pretty cool and
you can do amazing things with them.
I read somewhere (sorry can't find link but it was on sitepoint.com
written by Harry Fuecks) that one of the leading technical directors
at google had produced a patterns book with most of the important
patterns completely rewritten for prototype OO languages and many of
them were far simpler and much less code.
of course there is always the trade off with any dynamic language -
the less errors can be caught at 'compile time' the more you have to
test the code using 'unit testing' at run time.
I take any comments like 'AS2 is crap' or 'PHP is crap' or whatever
with a huge pinch of salt. Ask them 'Do you think people at
Macromedia/Adobe don't know what they're doing?' usually these people
have a computer science degree from Wolverhampton Poly or somesuch and
couldn't get a job at Adobe or Macromedia if they promised to work for
nothing and give foot massages to all the other developers whilst
compiling.
James
At 15:12 25/08/2006, you wrote:
When it comes to OOP and Flash I think an individuals opinion comes from
their knowledge of OOP. Those that have used it swear by it and vice
versa.
This is pretty much how it is with everything. I remember at the
release of
AS2 there were quite a few developers that I had interactions with
that were
saying that AS2 was crap and not to use it. I wonder how well that
worked
out for them :)
- darren
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