Dave Watts wrote:
Allow me to summarize your post:
That never works out very well, does it? Because it seems to me that
your summary missed a lot of Paul's points.
When summarizing, you have to remove details. I just focused on what I felt
was the core message.
Right, but Paul may disagree with you about what that core message is, exactly.
In my reading of Paul's message, I got something quite a bit different
than you did. One of the things that I got out of it was the focus
that Flex Builder/Flash Builder has on enterprise development, which
is really quite a different thing from many Flash development projects
I suspect.
I think that's right. I generally think that Flex addresses many of the
reasons why Flash was unappealing to many traditional developers who
were used to programming languages such as Java, etc who found Flash a
very poor development environment compared to what they were used to.
Naturally, times have changed and Flash is now rather more sophisticated
than when Flex first saw the light of day. Flash was always considered a
toy or rather flippant technology in corporate development circles.
I am still quite amazed that Macromedia ever developed Flex. I suspect
that a few people on the list might not know that originally it would
cost something like $6,000 for a Flex licence and some serious server
power was also required.
I applaud Macromedia for developing Flex (and perhaps also the
developers of FutureSplash ;-) ).
Paul
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