I like Alex's take better.
--- In [email protected], "Gordon Smith" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
>
> > how did you guys decide to use mxml (xml)?
>
> Here's my perspective...
>
> About five years ago there was a general feeling that Flash was
great
> for designers but not for developers. Another problem with Flash
was
> that the author-time FLA files that it saves are binary rather than
> text, which means they don't work wel with other tools, can't be
diffed
> in source code control, can't have changes from multiple developers
> merged in, etc.
>
> So a small team, which I was on, starting building a very simple
> authoring tool (which never shipped) which was kind of like Flash
> without the Timeline and which saved its author-time files in XML
> format. But we didn't consider this file format to be a language
you'd
> write in.
>
> This early work was dropped when we realized that what we should
really
> be building was a declarative HTML-like language for producing
SWFs.
> MXML was the result.
>
> > how did you decide to use actionscript
>
> That was a no-brainer because it was the language that the Flash
Player
> knew how to execute.
>
> - Gordon
>
> ________________________________
>
> From: [email protected]
> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of dorkie dork
from
> dorktown
> Sent: Friday, June 01, 2007 3:01 PM
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: Re: [flexcomponents]What background are the Adobe
Engineers?
>
>
>
> i would love to have sat in on the discussions when Flex was first
> conceived. how did you guys decide to use mxml (xml)? how did you
decide
> to use actionscript or at what point did you say we need to
rewrite this
> and then decided what features to add in?
>
>
> On 6/1/07, Gordon Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED] <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >
> wrote:
>
>
>
> I think the team has quite a mix of language backgrounds. My
> previous experience was mostly in C++ with ancient knowledge of
Fortran,
> Forth, Pascal, and C.
>
> - Gordon
>
> ________________________________
>
> From: [email protected]
> <mailto:[email protected]>
> [mailto:[email protected]
<mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ] On
> Behalf Of dorkie dork from dorktown
> Sent: Friday, June 01, 2007 11:25 AM
> To: [email protected]
> <mailto:[email protected]>
> Subject: [flexcomponents]What background are the Adobe
> Engineers?
>
>
>
>
> What are the background languages of the Adobe Flex
programmers?
> I read this article on Oliver Merks blog about how Java is similar
to
> AS3 and the team I work with is all Java developers.
>
>
> http://blog.olivermerk.ca/index.cfm/2007/6/1/Flex-for-Java-
Developers
> <http://blog.olivermerk.ca/index.cfm/2007/6/1/Flex-for-Java-
Developers>
>
