ActionScript

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...

ActionScript Wikipedia page
ActionScript docs
There are at least 24,615 ActionScript repos on GitHub
ActionScript first developed in Macromedia
PLDB estimates there are currently 88 job openings for ActionScript programmers.
file extensions for ActionScript include as
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: (12 related languages)JavaScript, Java, Haxe, HyperTalk, HyperCard, ECMAScript, iOS, Android, JSON, OpenGL, XML, MXML
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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);
}

Feature	Supported	Token	Example
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

title	author	year	reviews	ratings	rating
ActionScript 3.0 Game Programming University	Gary Rosenzweig	2007	2	79	3.67
Learning ActionScript 3.0: The Non-Programmer's Guide to ActionScript 3.0	Rich Shupe	2007	11	83	3.90

Books about ActionScript from ISBNdb

title	authors	year	publisher
ActionScript 3.0 Game Programming University	Rosenzweig, Gary	2007	Que
ActionScript for Flash MX: The Definitive Guide	Moock, Colin	20140703	O'Reilly Media, Inc.
Essential ActionScript 3.0: ActionScript 3.0 Programming Fundamentals	Moock, Colin	2007	Adobe Developer Library
Learning ActionScript 3.0: A Beginner's Guide	Shupe, Rich and Rosser, Zevan	2008	O'Reilly/Adobe Developer Library
Learning ActionScript 3.0: A Beginner's Guide	Shupe, Rich and Rosser, Zevan	2010	O'Reilly Media
The ActionScript 3.0 Migration Guide: Making the Move from ActionScript 2.0	Hadlock, Kris	2008	New Riders
Flash MX ActionScript For Designers: The Non-Programmer's Guide to Maximum Flash (Flash (Wiley))	Sahlin, Doug	2002	Wiley
Foundation ActionScript 3.0 with Flash CS3 and Flex	McSharry, Sean and YardFace, Gerald and Webster, Steve	2007	Apress
Object-Oriented ActionScript For Flash 8	Elst, Peter and YardFace, Gerald	2006	Apress
Foundation Game Design with ActionScript 3.0	van der Spuy, Rex	2012	Apress
Foundation ActionScript for Flash 8	Besley, Kristian and Bhangal, Sham and Dolecki, Eric and Powers, David	2006	Apress
Foundation ActionScript 3.0 Image Effects (Foundations)	YardFace, Gerald	2009	Apress
The ActionScript 3.0 Quick Reference Guide: For Developers and Designers Using Flash: For Developers and Designers Using Flash CS4 Professional (Adobe Developer Library)	Stiller, David and Shupe, Rich and deHaan, Jen and Richardson, Darren	2008	Adobe Developer Library
ActionScript for Multiplayer Games and Virtual Worlds	Makar, Jobe	2009	New Riders
Macromedia Flash MX ActionScript for Fun and Games	Rosenzweig, Gary	2002	Que Publishing
Macromedia Flash MX 2004 ActionScript 2.0 Dictionary	Macromedia	2003	Macromedia Press
Game Development with ActionScript	Moronta, Lewis	2003	Course Technology PTR
Learning ActionScript 3.0	Rich Shupe; Zevan Rosser	20071213	O'Reilly Media, Inc.
Migrating to Swift from Flash and ActionScript	Adams, Radoslava Leseva and Lesev, Hristo	2016	Apress
AdvancED ActionScript 3.0	Ben Smith	20111124	Springer Nature
AdvancED ActionScript 3.0 Animation	Keith Peters	20090125	Springer Nature
ActionScript 3.0 Game Programming University	Rosenzweig, Gary	2011	Que Publishing
Foundation ActionScript Animation: Making Things Move!	Peters, Keith	2005	Apress
Foundation ActionScript 3.0 for Flash and Flex	Darren Richardson; Paul Milbourne	20091109	Springer Nature
Creating Flash Widgets with Flash CS4 and ActionScript 3.0	John Arana	20090208	Springer Nature
The Essential Guide to Flex 2 with ActionScript 3.0	Charles Brown	20070510	Springer Nature
The Essential Guide to Flash Games: Building Interactive Entertainment with ActionScript	Fulton, Jeff and Fulton, Steve	2010	Apress
Foundation ActionScript 3	Milbourne, Paul and Richardson, Darren	2014	Apress
ActionScript 3.0 Game Programming University	Rosenzweig, Gary	2011	Que Publishing
Foundation Actionscript 3.0 Animation: Making Things Move!	Peters, Keith	2007	Apress
ActionScript 3.0 Bible	Braunstein, Roger	2010	Wiley
ActionScript 3.0: Visual QuickStart Guide	Ypenburg, Derrick	2010	Peachpit Press
ActionScript 3.0: Visual QuickStart Guide	Ypenburg, Derrick	2008	Peachpit Press
Essential ActionScript 2.0: Object-Oriented Development with ActionScript 2.0	Moock, Colin	2004	O'Reilly Media
ActionScript 3.0 Game Programming University	Rosenzweig, Gary	2007	Que Publishing
ActionScript 3.0 Cookbook: Solutions for Flash Platform and Flex Application Developers	Lott, Joey and Schall, Darron and Peters, Keith	2006	Adobe Developer Library
An Introduction to Programming with ActionScript 3.0	Trish Cornez and Richard Cornez	2011	Jones & Bartlett Learning
Advanced ActionScript 3: Design Patterns	Smith, Ben	2014	Apress
ActionScript 3.0 Migration Guide, The: Making the Move from ActionScript 2.0	Hadlock, Kris	2010	New Riders
Advanced ActionScript 3 with Design Patterns	Lott, Joey and Patterson, Danny	2006	Adobe Pr
Object-Oriented ActionScript 3.0	Elst, Peter and Jacobs, Sas	2007	Apress
ActionScript 3.0 Design Patterns: Object Oriented Programming Techniques (Adobe Developer Library)	Sanders, William and Cumaranatunge, Chandima	2007	Adobe Developer Library
Foundation ActionScript 3.0 for Flash and Flex (Foundations)	Richardson, Darren and Milbourne, Paul	2009	Apress
Flash 8 ActionScript Bible	Lott, Joey and Reinhardt, Robert	2006	Wiley
Developing Flex 4 Components: Using ActionScript & MXML to Extend Flex and AIR Applications	Jones, Mike	2011	Addison-Wesley Professional
Learning Actionscript 2.0 for Macromedia Flash 8	Dehaan, Jen and Dehaan, Peter	2005	Macmillan/Rand McNally
Understanding Macromedia Flash 8 ActionScript 2: Basic techniques for creatives	Rapo, Andrew and Michael, Alex	2006	Focal Press
ActionScript Developer's Guide to Robotlegs: Building Flexible Rich Internet Applications	Hooks, Joel and Fallow), Stray (Lindsey	2011	O'Reilly Media
Object-Oriented Programming with ActionScript	Hall, Branden and Wan, Samuel	2002	New Riders Pub
Foundation Actionscript	Bhangal, Sham	2000	friendsofED
Flash MX: Advanced ActionScript	Mohler, James L. and Kothary, Nishant	2002	Delmar Cengage Learning
Object-Oriented Programming With Actionscript 2.0	Tapper, Jeff and Talbot, James and Haffner, Robin	2004	New Riders Pub
Sams Teach Yourself Flash MX ActionScript in 24 Hours	Rosenzweig, Gary	2002	Sams
ActionScript 2.0 Language Reference for Macromedia Flash 8	Cheng, Francis and deHaan, Jen and Dixon, Robert L. and Rahim, Shimul	2005	Macromedia Press
ActionScript Zero to Hero	Jen deHaan and Glen Rhodes	2003	Apress
Automating ActionScript Projects with Eclipse and Ant: Code, Compile, Debug and Deploy Faster	Koning, Sidney de	2011	O'Reilly Media
ActionScript for Flash MX Pocket Reference: Quick Reference for Flash MX Programmers (Pocket Reference (O'Reilly))	Moock, Colin	2003	O'Reilly Media
Foundation ActionScript for Flash 8	Kristian Besley; Sham Bhangal; Eric Dolecki; David Powers	20061206	Springer Nature
ActionScript Developer's Guide to Robotlegs	Joel Hooks; Stray (Lindsey Fallow)	20110808	O'Reilly Media, Inc.
Foundation Game Design with ActionScript 3.0	Rex van der Spuy	20120328	Springer Nature
ActionScript 3.0 Game Programming University, 2e (New Edition)	Rosenzweig	2011T	PEARSON EDUCATION
ActionScript 3.0 Cookbook	Joey Lott; Darron Schall; Keith Peters	20061011	O'Reilly Media, Inc.
AdvancED ActionScript Components	Antonio De Donatis	20061218	Springer Nature
Essential ActionScript 2.0	Colin Moock	20040616	O'Reilly Media, Inc.
Learning ActionScript 3.0	Rich Shupe	20101018	O'Reilly Media, Inc.
Learning ActionScript 3.0	Rich Shupe; Zevan Rosser	20101018	O'Reilly Media, Inc.
Essential ActionScript 3.0	Moock, Colin	06/2007	O'Reilly Media, Inc.
Essential ActionScript 3.0	Colin Moock	20070622	O'Reilly Media, Inc.
Foundation ActionScript Animation	Keith Peters	20061122	Springer Nature
ActionScript 3.0 Bible	Roger Braunstein	2011-02-23	Wiley
ActionScript 3.0 Bible	Roger Braunstein and Mims H. Wright and Josuha J. Noble	2007-10-23	Wiley
Flash 5 Actionscript Studio	Sham Bhangal and Jamie Macdonald and José Rodriguez and Michael Bedar and Richard Chu and John Davey and Justin Everett-church and Josie R. Rodriguez and Adam Wolff	2001	Friendsofed
Learning ActionScript 3.0: The Non-Programmer's Guide to ActionScript 3.0	Shupe, Rich; Rosser, Zevan	12/2007	O'Reilly Media, Inc.
ActionScript 3.0 Design Patterns	William Sanders; Chandima Cumaranatunge	20070716	O'Reilly Media, Inc.
ActionScript Zero to Hero	Jen deHaan and Glen Rhodes	2002	friends of ED Ltd
Foundation Actionscript 3.0 Animation	Keith Peters	20070525	Springer Nature
Actionscript X: Programming For Designers	Bill Sanders	2001	O'reilly Media
ActionScript Developer's Guide to PureMVC	Cliff Hall	20111219	O'Reilly Media, Inc.
Actionscript 3.0 Game Programming University	Rosenzweig and Gary
ActionScript Developer's Guide to Robotlegs	Joel Hooks; Stray (Lindsey Fallow)	20110808	O'Reilly Media, Inc.
ActionScript Developer's Guide to PureMVC	Cliff Hall	20111219	O'Reilly Media, Inc.
Foundation ActionScript 3.0 Image Effects	Gerald YardFace	20090725	Springer Nature
Understanding Macromedia Flash 8 Actionscript 2	Andrew Rapo and Alex Michael	2013	Crc Press
ActionScript for Flash MX Pocket Reference	Colin Moock	20030319	O'Reilly Media, Inc.
Object-Oriented ActionScript For Flash 8	Peter Elst; Gerald YardFace	20061124	Springer Nature
Flash Mx Games: Actionscript For Artists	Nik Lever	2012	Taylor & Francis
Foundation ActionScript for Macromedia Flash MX	Ben Renow-Clarke; Sham Bhangal	20131111	Springer Nature
Understanding Macromedia Flash 8 ActionScript 2	Andrew Rapo; Alex Michael	20130117	Taylor & Francis
Macromedia Flash Mx Actionscript For Fun & Games	Rosenzweig, Gary.		Que
Flash Mx 2004 Games: Art To Actionscript	Nik Lever	2012	Taylor & Francis
ActionScript for Flash MX: The Definitive Guide	Colin Moock	20021218	O'Reilly Media, Inc.
An Introduction to Programming with ActionScript 3.0	California University of Redlands Patricia Cornez; University of Redlands Richard Cornez	20130401	Jones & Bartlett Learning
Automating ActionScript Projects with Eclipse and Ant	Sidney de Koning	20111010	O'Reilly Media, Inc.
ActionScript for Flash MX: the definitive guide	Moock, Colin.	2002	O'reilly
Automating ActionScript projects with Eclipse and Ant	Koning, Sidney De.		O'reilly
Automating ActionScript Projects with Eclipse and Ant	Sidney de Koning	20111010	O'Reilly Media, Inc.
The Essential Guide to Flash CS4 with ActionScript	Chris Kaplan; Paul Milbourne; Michael Boucher	20090423	Springer Nature
ActionScript 3.0 Design Patterns: Object Oriented Programming Techniques	Sanders, William; Cumaranatunge, Chandima	07/2007	O'Reilly Media, Inc.
Foundation ActionScript 3.0 with Flash CS3 and Flex	Sean McSharry; Gerald YardFace; Steve Webster	20080731	Springer Nature
Understanding Flash Mx 2004 Actionscript 2: Basic Techniques For Creatives	Michael, Alex.	2013	Focal Press
Introduction To Actionscript Workbook: An Introduction To Actionscript And The Fundamentals Of Programming. The Only Curriculum Specifically Designed ... At Home, In The Classroom Or On-line.	Arthur Phillips	2011	Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ActionScript 3.0 Programming: Overview, Getting Started, and Examples of New Concepts	William Sanders	20070118	O'Reilly Media, Inc.
ActionScript 3.0 Cookbook: Solutions for Flash Platform and Flex Application Developers	Lott, Joey; Schall, Darron; Peters, Keith	10/2006	O'Reilly Media, Inc.
ActionScript 3.0 Programming: Overview, Getting Started, and Examples of New Concepts	William Sanders	20070118	O'Reilly Media, Inc.
The ActionScript 3.0 Quick Reference Guide: For Developers and Designers Using Flash	David Stiller; Rich Shupe; Jen deHaan; Darren Richardson	20081017	O'Reilly Media, Inc.
The ActionScript 3.0 Quick Reference Guide: For Developers and Designers Using Flash: For Developers and Designers Using Flash CS4 Professional	Stiller, David; Shupe, Rich; deHaan, Jen; Richardson, Darren	10/2008	O'Reilly Media, Inc.

title	authors	year	citations	influentialCitations
Foundation ActionScript 3	D. Richardson and P. Milbourne	2014	2	0
Guide Me to Exploit: Assisted ROP Exploit Generation for ActionScript Virtual Machine	Fadi Yilmaz and Meera Sridhar and Wontae Choi	2020	1	0

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