xDD Well, maybe it sound good for me..english is not my native languaje ;)
2007/6/2, Paul Andrews <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
Err.. a Royale is something you get from Burger King.. ;-) ----- Original Message ----- *From:* Carlos Rovira <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> *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 > > ------------------------------ > *From:* [email protected] [mailto:flexcompone > [EMAIL PROTECTED] *On Behalf Of *dorkie dork from dorktown > *Sent:* Friday, June 01, 2007 4:31 PM > *To:* [email protected] > *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 > > > > ------------------------------ > > *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]> 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] > > > *On Behalf Of *dorkie dork from dorktown > > > *Sent:* Friday, June 01, 2007 11:25 AM > > > *To:* [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 > > > > > > > > > > > > -- ::| Carlos Rovira ::| http://www.carlosrovira.com ::| http://www.madeinflex.com
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