Action Script

Action Script is a programming language for programming the content of Macromedia Flash files, and it is interpreted by a flash player. It can be written both internally in Macromedia's own authoring program for creating flash (swf) files, or it can be written in plain text in a *.as file.

Characteristics

• In the most recent version of the language (Action Script 2.0), the language has become almost fully Object oriented, by supporting classes, inheritance, interfaces, packages, strick datatyping, private and public class members.
• The syntax is very similar to other object oriented languages such as Java.