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by junkyarddog 3385 days ago
Agreed. A turing-complete language isn't the ideal choice for smart contracts. A strongly typed ML or Haskell style language would have been a much better choice as a starting point.
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That's exactly what Tezos [1] is proposing: a strongly typed language whose semantics is currently being formalized in the Coq theorem prover.

[1]: https://tezos.com/pages/tech.html