Does this mark the end of the Flash hacker?

MX 2004 has some real cool features for programmers the biggest one being of course ActionScript 2.0.

Moock is rejoicing that the evil 'prototype' is dead. And of course a lot of programmers are happy that ActionScript just got a wee bit more stricter...

I remember how Flash 4 was a big leap over Flash 3. Ditto Flash 5. And the MX. Now MX 2004. ActionScript and Flash Scripting has been becoming more and more sophisticated over a period of time. So does this mark the end of the road of people like me who started out early with Flash (I did with Flash 1) and then progressed as Flash moved on?

I can't yet call myself a programmer.

I learnt Flash 4 scripting by looking at Lingo. Then I learnt OOP by using Flash 5 and believe it or not I also learnt JavaScript because of Flash. Event based programming became part of my life thanks to Flash MX. But now?

Is it time for the non-programmer type to give up and adopt the simpler version? I think not. I'm going to buy MX 2004 Pro. I've been upgrading myself all these years, looks like I can do with another...

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Posted by Navneet at August 26, 2003 12:46 AM | TrackBack | Comments disabled due to spam