| Dan Sheetz on Sun, 28 Apr 2002 05:06:56 +0200 (CEST) |
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| Re: <nettime> flash. flash. flash. digest [sawad, klima, hwang] |
As a professional Flash and PHP programmer, I just have one small thing to say about why flash is important, whether or not it is as powerful as C or some other more "real" programming language: Flash actionscript is tied in very very directly with visual representations of its alleged object-oriented-ness; it takes the programmatic notion of the 'object' and makes it very close to literal. I can nest one object inside another and literally _watch_ the properties inherit inward. I challenge someone to show me another environment that can do that in a matter of minutes. Yeah, yeah, there are other visual environments that allow one to create interactive environments visually, but none that I know of comes even close to Flash in terms of allowing a programmer to visualize their objects quickly and easily in an environment that just about anyone in the world can view. That combined with the fact that it is fairly standards-compliant (yes, its proprietary, but so is Java and I don't hear too many people griping about that) makes it an environment that is sure to be around for a long time to come. Once your TV has interactive controls for individual "shows", do you really think that's all going to be coded in C++ or Java? Not me. My money's on Flash, or some variant thereof. All you purist turbo-geeks out there better get used to it ;-) (that's a joke, people) Have a nice weekend. Dan Sheetz > From: "nettime's_word-processor" <[email protected]> > Reply-To: "nettime's_word-processor" <[email protected]> > Date: Fri, 26 Apr 2002 16:06:05 -0400 > To: [email protected] > Subject: <nettime> flash. flash. flash. digest [sawad, klima, hwang] <...> # distributed via <nettime>: no commercial use without permission # <nettime> is a moderated mailing list for net criticism, # collaborative text filtering and cultural politics of the nets # more info: [email protected] and "info nettime-l" in the msg body # archive: http://www.nettime.org contact: [email protected]