Benefits of AS3 over other programming languages

Hi everyone i am writing a project on AS3 and trying to find
the benefits AS3 has over other object orientated programming
languages in designing a website and why it is getting so popular.
Tried searching on google but has never got any useful information.
Thanks for you assistance in advance

nambo1,
First of all, the real hero is the Flash Player. The Flash
Player, the features it has, and the environments it runs in and
how it runs in those environments (particularly the web browser,
but as kglad pointed, it's very flexible and is used other places
as well) is what makes it so popular. ActionScript is simply how
you programatically use the Flash Player. ActionScript is an
ECMAScript language of which there are others, but it's the Flash
Player (and what you can do with it) that attracts people.
The Flash Player has been popular for awhile now. AS3,
however, is the latest and completely redone language for the Flash
Player. Because it's new and because there are significant
differences between AS3 and its predecessor (AS1 and AS2), there is
some adoption time required. Many people are still using AS2. You
can google to find out a lot more detail about the
advantages/disadvantages to AS3 vs AS2, if that's what you're
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(I concider a solution where I do the single tests with Labview-VIs but delegate all the test sequencing and data collection stuff written in PERL which allows really very compact code)
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Given that you're asking these questions in a forum for LabVIEW users the opinions given are going to be somewhat slanted towards the general like of LabVIEW. I've been working with LabVIEW for a long time, ever since 2.something on a Mac. I've written numerous large-scale applications as well as "mundane" instrument drivers. As you've noted you're experienced with LabVIEW, so you know some of its strengths and weaknesses.
To address your specific questions:
(1) Yes, that has always been a limitation in LabVIEW, but I don't believe it is an overriding one to choose C over LabVIEW. Putnam provided one workaround for the search and replace of VIs. Once you've programmed in LabVIEW long enough you get used to doing it this way. Is it clumsy? Yes. As for the re-use of code structures, that's not entirely true. You can create a "template" VI (a regular VI, not a .vit) that contains the code you want to re-use and place in your palette with the "Merge VI" option set. That way you can select it from your functions palette, plop it down on your diagram, and you get the "template" VI's diagram placed right into your new VI.
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