I’m doing this Dare in Flash, and that has me programming in ActionScript for the first time in three or four years. I forgot how much I enjoy the language. Things seem to move quickly for me in it. It has enough C++ like elements (like strong typing and “templated” vectors) to give it some crispness and power, but also has that soft, forgiving side that makes scripting languages quick for work like this.

That said, I’ve gotten rustier than I expected. I keep having to look up everything. What Math.random() returns. How to delete elements from Vectors and Arrays. How to format numbers into sensible-looking strings. The syntax for Vectors, to use that example again, is weird: Vector.<TypeName> is kinda like C++ only not.