ActionScript - Programming language

ActionScript is a programming language created in 1998 by Gary Grossman.

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438 184 ActionScript is an object-oriented programming language originally developed by Macromedia Inc. (later acquired by Adobe Systems). It is a derivation of HyperTalk, the scripting language for HyperCard. Read more on Wikipedia...

Tags: programming language
There are at least 24,615 ActionScript repos on GitHub
Early development of ActionScript happened in Macromedia
The Google BigQuery Public Dataset GitHub snapshot shows 7k users using ActionScript in 9k repos on GitHub
Explore ActionScript snippets on Rosetta Code
ActionScript appears in the TIOBE Index
Pygments supports syntax highlighting for ActionScript
GitHub supports syntax highlighting for ActionScript
Indeed.com has 88 matches for "ActionScript developer".
See also: (11 related languages) JavaScript, Java, Haxe, HyperTalk, HyperCard, iOS, Android, JSON, OpenGL, XML, MXML
6 PLDB concepts link to ActionScript: Ace Editor, Haxe, JFlex, LinearML, MonkeyX, Pygments

Example from hello-world:

package
{
	import flash.display.Sprite;
	import flash.text.TextField;
	
	public class actionscript extends Sprite
	{
		private var hello:TextField = new TextField();
		
		public function actionscript(){
			hello.text = "Hello World";
			addChild(hello);
		}
	}
}

Example from Linguist:

package mypackage
{
	public class Hello
	{
		/* Let's say hello!
		 * This is just a test script for Linguist's Actionscript detection.
		 */
		public function sayHello():void
		{
			trace("Hello, world");
		}
	}
}

Example from Wikipedia:

private function getNeighbours(_arg1:int, _arg2:int):Array{
  var _local3:Array = -(((null - !NULL!) % ~(undefined)));
  var _local4:*;
  var _local5:*;
  var _local6:*;
  _local3 = new Array();
  _local4 = 0;
  for (;//unresolved jump
  , _arg2 < 8;_local4++) {
    _local5 = (_arg1 + int(!NULL!));
    _local6 = (_arg2 + int(!NULL!));
    if (true){
      _arg1 = (((//unresolved nextvalue or nextname << !NULL!) + !NULL!)
<< undefined);
      _arg1 = (!(!NULL!) ^ !NULL!);
      (!NULL! instanceof !NULL!);
      var _local1 = (((!NULL! as !NULL!) + !NULL!) == this);
      if (!(!NULL! == !NULL!)){
        -((true << !NULL!)).push(Cell(cells[_local5][_local6]));
      }
    }
    if (!true){
      (_local6 < 0);
      (_local6 < 0);
      (_local5 < 0);
    }
  }
return (_local3);
}

Language features

Feature	Supported	Example	Token
Line Comments	✓
Integers	✓
Floats	✓
Hexadecimals	✓
Strings	✓	"Hello world"	"
Comments	✓	/* A comment */
MultiLine Comments	✓	/* A comment */	/* */
Print() Debugging	✓		trace
Case Insensitive Identifiers	X
Semantic Indentation	X