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

[Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason]

On Thu, Mar 11, 2010 at 10:38, Richard Fairhurst <richard at systemed.net> wrote:
> 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.

Is it worse or better than the PL1 codebase ?:)