Err.. a Royale is something you get from Burger King.. ;-)
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From: Carlos Rovira
To: [email protected]
Sent: Saturday, June 02, 2007 11:17 AM
Subject: Re: [flexcomponents]What background are the Adobe Engineers?
I must to say that I loved the first codename "Royale" in beta early days,
and when Flex becomes 1.0 and get final name "Macromedia Flex"...I didn't like
it, but nowadays I think that Flex is more convenient than Royale...
Now it's the turn for Apollo, isn't it? ;)
2007/6/2, Matt Chotin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
I don't remember the history of the Flex name, but I think we were
generally looking for something that might not go too far away from Flash. And
we were able to come up with a rune we liked :-) AS3 features are really about
what was coming in the ES4 specification. We simply gave feedback. Lots of us
have Java experience and talked about things we wanted from there (or wanted to
do differently than Java). We looked at C# and features that it had that we
liked. But really in many respects for the Flex team we made minor suggestions
on AS3 as much of it was coming from the larger ECMA working group.
Matt
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dorkie dork from dorktown
Sent: Friday, June 01, 2007 4:31 PM
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Subject: Re: [flexcomponents]What background are the Adobe Engineers?
how did the name Flex come about? how did you guys decide what features to
put in AS3?
On 6/1/07, 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
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From: [email protected] [mailto:flexcompone [EMAIL
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Sent: Friday, June 01, 2007 3:01 PM
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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]> 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
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Sent: Friday, June 01, 2007 11:25 AM
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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
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