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Discussion on: What's your spookiest coding story?

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jamescalviniv

I was an ActionScript developer, does that count?

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Cassandra Spruit

Definitely counts.

My first gig was damage control from the last ActionScript developer and boy howdy, it gave me plenty of cautionary tales of what not to do.

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Paula Santamaría

Me too! 😂

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harleybl • Edited

Me too. I even went to the MAX conference in Salt Lake City. I built an online game show in Flash/ActionScript back in 2001. At a certain point the AS runtime would garbage collect my class definitions and then nothing would work. We worked around it by forcing a browser refresh after the end of each game to give the user a fresh runtime.

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Jason C. McDonald • Edited

Same.

ActionScript, where a vector is a fixed-size array, and an array is always a vector. Shudders