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90 points rbanffy | 5 comments | 04 Sep 25 19:25 UTC | HN request time: 0.701s | source
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veltas ◴[04 Sep 25 20:27 UTC] No.45131872[source]▶
Any relation to ActionScript?
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1. hn_acc1 ◴[04 Sep 25 20:45 UTC] No.45132016[source]▶
ActionScript came ~10-15 years later. I would be very surprised if there was any relation.
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2. cosmotic ◴[04 Sep 25 21:31 UTC] No.45132451[source]▶
ActionScript is based on ECMA/JavaScript
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3. fourthark ◴[04 Sep 25 22:47 UTC] No.45133105[source]▶
Originally it was based on HyperTalk, then it switched to ECMA later on.
4. jjtheblunt ◴[04 Sep 25 23:07 UTC] No.45133264[source]▶
not historically, but merged back into implementing ECMA/Javascript later. it predates javascript by years in earlier revisions.
5. veltas ◴[05 Sep 25 13:43 UTC] No.45138499[source]▶
That's why I asked, fishing for surprising but interesting information.