On Wednesday, a developer called Tendo Pein announced the launch of a new smart contract programming language for the Bitcoin Cash network. Pein said “Spedn,” a BCH-based language, is designed for explicitness and safety while having a syntax similar to the C programming environment.
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High-Level BCH Smart Contracts
Bitcoin Cash proponents have been introduced to a new smart contract programming language specifically designed for the BCH protocol. The developer Tendo Pein has explained in a recent blog post that one of the difficulties of programming smart contracts with Bitcoin is due to the Script language. Pein said Bitcoin’s Script is a stack-oriented language, similar to the Forth programming language and environment. But instead of giving up, Pein’s passion for the Haskell data processing syntax led the developer to start building Spedn.
“Today, I’m pleased to announce Spedn — A high-level smart contract language for Bitcoin Cash,” Pein declared in his post. “It is designed for explicitness and safety, statically typed and detects many errors at compile time, explicitly typed with no guessing to what the expression is supposed to return. It is purely functional — free of side effects, the common source of bugs, and it has a familiar C-like syntax.”
A Syntax Overview and
Two Smart Contract Examples
Spedn’s documentation is available for BCH developers to review and provide feedback. The specifications give a syntax overview, contract templates, lexical scopes, and more. Additionally, Pein’s work details math functions, hashing functions, cryptographic checks, and the command line interface for compiling. The Spedn documentation further gives developers a quick-start guide and a write-up on
