Flash programming

Looking at games that others have made, I am starting to contemplate whether to use flash actionscript or allegro. Flash is easier to use and possesses the ability to animate objects and manipulate frames instantaneously. On the other hand, Allegro has more potential, but it forces the programmer to control every aspect of drawing, animating, colouring, and designing a program. Actionscript is more inefficient when it comes to the structure of interfacing the animation, mouse clicks, key presses, and frames; athough being able to interface these aspects of a program with only small bits of code is astonishing.