[OSM-talk] Contributing to PL2 (was: Re: Thoughts on OSM design, and looking forward and back)

[Richard Fairhurst]

Steve Bennett wrote:

> Sweet. How hard can ActionScript be, really? (I've done plenty of C,
> Delphi, Java etc in the distant past, usually the difficulty is not
> the language, it's learning the codebase.)

Exactly. If you know Java then you shouldn't find AS3 much of a  
stretch at all - think of something halfway between Java and  
JavaScript. The library is huge but the docs are, fortunately, pretty  
good. I found event listeners a bit bizarre at first, and the whole  
URLLoader/Loader mess still alternately confuses and annoys me. But  
generally it's very understandable.

cheers
Richard