A few weeks ago we had a survey to see the practices used by professional ActionScript 3.0 developers, and the results are quite interesting. Roughly, 31% of the respondents indicated that they used design patterns and OOP either as a strict policy in developing their products or from within a template. Another 51% indicated that given the time, they’d employ design patterns and all of the good practices, but because of time pressure, often they could not. The smallest category, representing 12% of the respondents, indicated that they didn’t pay attention either to design patterns or good OOP practices. In other words, 88% of the respondents indicated that they were aware of and attempted to use good development practices as a general policy except where it was impossible because of time and/or resource constraints.
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