Round Bottom Flas(h)k

'Hesitant' is how s/w engineers become when they have to change their coding languge or are forced to do that coz they aint got an option. Everybody is resistant to changes... its quite human to do so. But coz of this change most of the times people miss their great oppourtunities to discover the boundries of their capabilities. And there is one such lingu which might make people switch onto their "No way I am not going to do that" mode, and thats ...the Macromedia Flash lingu. Well..."not so much flash" used people feel that there is not much to flash about flash but in real at least till date there is nothing in flash that does not flash coz flash is all about making a flash for the viewers. Wired sentence to read right? with really a lot of flash-flash everywhere. But as a matter of fact this sentence is not the only place where flash is hanging everywhere. Every second good site you surf has considrable amount of flash. Still Java and .NET people become hesitant to take that in hand. Using flash is more like using a Round Bottom Flask. You know that you can do all wonders using that, you can concentrate the appropriate energy at the appropriate place and become a wizard. But you really never tend to use that just because you feel it can never stand on its own on the table shelves coz of its round bottom shape. But thats not a fact. You have stands to keep that, aint you?Talk about XML support, talk about remoting, talk about garbage collection or even the understanding the finest protocol JAVA failed to understand or .NET never tried to copy from and you will find that there is almost everything in here. What it lacked once was just a good IDE. And surprizingly Flash 8 just proves to rectify what it lacked.Do you still think working in Flash is all about multimedia programming? No it aint like that...its more like making magic portions in the round bottom flas(h)k.