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Tom Smykowski
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10 interesting facts about Solidity

  1. You can mark a function as pure. It is partially enforced.
  2. Unicode text is handled, but has to be indicated as one
  3. It has a type address for Ethereum adresses
  4. It supports time units. You can write for example x = 5 days
  5. It supports polymorphism
  6. It differentiates int variables by sizes
  7. It is statically typed
  8. Can be used to write contracts
  9. Is similar to JavaScript, C++, Typescript
  10. It was proposed by Gavin Wood,

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