ActionScript came ~10-15 years later. I would be very surprised if there was any relation.
cosmotic•46s ago
ActionScript is based on ECMA/JavaScript
wduquette•17m ago
The OP says that 8-bit CPUs couldn't handle Pascal well, and that Action! (release in 1983) was the first IDE for 8-bit machines.
But Apple Pascal was released for the Apple II in 1979. Based on UCSD Pascal, the Apple Pascal system was basically an OS that simply was an IDE; and it worked perfectly well on 8-bit hardware. I had quite a lot of fun with it back in the day.
veltas•1h ago
hn_acc1•46m ago
cosmotic•46s ago