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by yodsanklai 2403 days ago
> the stakes are too high to want to trust your assets to arbitrary turing-complete code.

Does it matter whether the language is turing-complete or not? you're trusting a contract, not the PL used to write the contract, and the contract can be very simple (and formally verified, if the PL has a formal semantics).

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I think the point is that it is easier to formally verify a non-Turing-complete PL