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Oh well done. Taking the pun and then actually implementing it fully, for the win. > Pyramid Scheme is implemented using the appropriately-named Racket.

• empath75 9y ago
  This is perfect. What would actually be perfect is if it replaced solidity.
  • jtms 9y ago
    don't worry, Cardano is going to eat Ethereum's lunch and it most definitely will not be using solidity.
    • aesthethiccs 9y ago
      How can you be so sure cardano will eat ethereums lunch when the concentration of developers in eth > cardano ? I can see the benefits of cardano but I don't think it can catch up ?
      • hesdeadjim 9y ago
        How about a single large scale smart contract launch that doesn’t end up needing a hard fork or result in people having money permanently frozen? I hold ETH and I am excited for what it could do. But Solidity is hot garbage and that Python inspired alternative is a close second. I also don’t care about quantity of developers. These things deal with real money from real people, it demands a level of seriousness an average developer should run screaming from.
        • mitchellberry 9y ago
          Serpent is deprecated, there's no first or second there. Also think you are confusing poorly made cookie cutter erc20 tokens as representative of smart contracts in general, it is most certainly all a mess, but perhaps those treating alpha software as production ready is the real problem? Last i looked the biggest user of gas and thus what is keeping your jaded investment afloat is ENS, no token just a pure smart contact. It has been running fine for a year. Sadly we have people investing into hairbrained marketing brochures created by unqualified people in their underwear rather than proven products, in a free world I see no solution to this other than education. On the other side of the equation we have people like Dan Guido seeking funding to make formal verification frameworks and the commmunity barely even notices nor puts it on a pedestal like every doomed ico that comes along.
          • makomk 9y ago
            It's not just the cookie cutter ERC20 contracts. There have been repeated serious issues with, for example, multisig contracts written by core Etherium developers and shipped in wallet apps. I think people may still be waiting on a hard fork to release funds locked by the latest multisig fuckup.
            • hesdeadjim 9y ago
              Yep this is what I mean. If the core developers find it hard to write bulletproof smart contracts the problem is real.
              • mitchellberry 9y ago
                Fair call, parity bug and dao are indefensible, the fact they were both so intimately involved with Ethereum makes it a magnitude worse. I just wanted to lament that for all the money sloshing around there isn't more work being done on security.
        • whataretensors 9y ago
          And PHP powers some of the largest sites on the web. Solidity will work for most people who just copy a boilerplate smart contract.
          • masklinn 9y ago
            Like the folks who lost their multisig ethereum wallets less than a month back because a rando sent a kill command to the master contract?
          • hesdeadjim 9y ago
            You don’t see people losing millions of dollars when a webpage fails to load due to a simple logic error.
            • KomradeKeeks 9y ago
              Webpages don't store money in the form of digital tokens that move in accordance to the webpage's logic.
              • derefr 9y ago
                Online gambling webpages do.
      • jtms 9y ago
        I don't think anyone can be sure about anything, but I am very impressed by the team behind this and the source code I have looked through so far.
    • homakov 9y ago
      Please elaborate, what cardano does differently?
    • fsiefken 9y ago
      What about NEO? it supports writing smart contracts in Java, Kotlin and C#
    • CryptoPunk 9y ago
      That's just marketing hype from Cardano, which is the same hype being used to promote Tezos. It's based on the plan to allow Cardano smart contracts to be formally verified. Two other programming languages are being developed for Ethereum that are being formalized by independent teams, and will allow formal verification of smart contracts. e.g. an ERC20 token smart contract implementation is being formally verified by the KEVM project. And a third language is being developed with the aim of doing the same. Also, Cardano is currently centralized and will be until 2018 at the earliest when further upgrades are made in an attempt to make it decentralized. Meanwhile, Ethereum is already decentralized and work is under way to upgrade it to massively increase its scalability. Ethereum is way ahead and has the critical mass of developer and industry support.
  • baby 9y ago
    I would never have thought that anyone would want to replace something with Scheme)))))))
    • junke 9y ago
      You just learned something, great.
      • baby 9y ago
        Hopefuly nobody is forcing me to use that language XD
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  • spraak 9y ago
    Is that literate brainfuck?
• raverbashing 9y ago
  Or, you know, it could also have been a variant of Scheme
• gok 9y ago
  And you can tell that it's not a scam, no `cons` here!