[Flashcoders] Using other languages to improve my Actionscript - Opinions

I've read several times here and in other forums that picking up another language will accelerate my ActionScipt progress. I have very much found this to be the case as faqr as depth of understanding but am curious about others experiences. I've been learning Python for the last few

Re: [Flashcoders] Using other languages to improve my Actionscript - Opinions

To phrase it as a formal question- For those who have picked up other languages after or at the same time as ActionScript- which have you found helped boost your learning the best and why? As a follow up question- despite Java's similarity to ActionScript is it too much work for the result? Mani

Re: [Flashcoders] Using other languages to improve my Actionscript - Opinions

I actually went the other way. I was always doing PHP and web languages. Nothing OOP though. Even actionscript was just timeline procedural for the most part. I didn't understand OOP at all. I tried learning Java to see if OOP would come better. But no luck. I think for learning OOP Java is