Re:XML programming langauges aren't feasible. (Score 1)

Actually the XML is intented to be used for laying out the application and even in that case you can let the IDE write out the XML code for you behind the scenes. The methods in the application are written in ActionScript 3.0 and behave like the methods in many other object oriented languages. Creating layouts with XML has been adopted by several languages as an effective and quick way to declaratively create the User interface. Mozilla's XUL and several java tools and even c++ (entity-c) have all found this technique to be a rapid and effective way to get the layout done quickly.