Adobe Flash and Actionscript 3.0. As for why actionscript 3.0 was made it was built I think Adobe wanted to turn Flash into an application programming language.

Adobe Flash and Actionscript 3.0. As for why actionscript 3.0 was made it was built I think Adobe wanted to turn Flash into an application programming language. And it failed pretty badly at this. Actionscript 2.0 had a well defined purpose that is to control animation. But Actionscript 3.0 became a monster that imposed a lot of work to do those basic things and it really did not excel at anything beyond that.