Re:Deleting $300M by messing around with Ethereum contracts
by stingraycharles on Monday November 20, 2017 @12:15PM
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Any idea why the developers chose to develop their own language, rather than just using an existing language that makes sense ?
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Re:Deleting $300M by messing around with Ethereum contracts
by guiomie on Monday November 20, 2017 @01:50PM
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I recently started to code some Solidity, and there are some syntax expressions in the language (e.g payable function) that you wouldn't find in other languages because they don't deal with those concepts. Could you have used a modified version of Java or simply embed those concepts in a library, probably. I guess they wanted a specialized language.