# ActionScript-P language culture question

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/actionscript-p-language-culture-question/181898>\
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**Created:** [March 14, 2006, 3:21am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/actionscript-p-language-culture-question/181898 "2006-03-14T03:21:11Z")\
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**Author:** ![SamFeltus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/858c86/32.png) [@SamFeltus](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/SamFeltus)\
**Post date:** [March 14, 2006, 3:21am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/actionscript-p-language-culture-question/181898/1 "2006-03-14T03:21:11Z")

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I am a gardener by trade who has taken to writing code in my spare time lately. Started with Perl, into ActionScript and Python these days.

Anyways, being into Python, I find it odd this obsession with HTML and especially JavaScript in the P communities. It seems too me that JavaScript is mostly a very weak version of ECMA Script compared to ActionScript (of course JS has its uses). Honestly, I think HTML oughta be deprecated except for text/simple image display and replaced with something more like Flash.

Anyways, it seems odd too me the huge volume of JavaScript to ActionScript served up by P scripts (Perl/PHP/Python). And what the heck does AJAX do that can’t be better done in Flash and a P language. Yet, if you bring this up on P language lists, it is like you are bringing up AIDS or something. I have been tinkering with Python/JSON/ActionScript, and don’t see what all this AJAX stuff buys you.

Anyways, curious what others think.

Thanks,

Sam

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