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Imran Bashir
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Imran Bashir

Imran Bashir has an M.Sc. in Information Security from Royal Holloway, University of London, and has a background in software development, solution architecture, infrastructure management, and IT service management. He is also a member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) and the British Computer Society (BCS). Imran has extensive experience in both the public and financial sectors, having worked on large-scale IT projects in the public sector before moving to the financial services industry. Since then, he has worked in various technical roles for different financial companies in Europe's financial capital, London.
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Programming languages

Code for smart contracts in Ethereum is written in high-level languages such as Serpent, Low-level Lisp-like Language (LLL), Solidity, or Vyper, and is converted into the bytecode that the EVM understands for it to be executed.

Solidity is one of the high-level languages that has been developed for Ethereum. It uses JavaScript-like syntax to write code for smart contracts. Once the code is written, it is compiled into bytecode that's understandable by the EVM using the Solidity compiler called solc.

Official Solidity documentation is available at http://solidity.readthedocs.io/en/latest/.

LLL is another language that is used to write smart contract code.

Serpent is a Python-like, high-level language that can be used to write smart contracts for Ethereum.

Vyper is a newer language that has been developed from scratch to achieve a secure, simple, and auditable language.

More information regarding Vyper is available...

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Published in: Aug 2020Publisher: PacktISBN-13: 9781839213199

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Imran Bashir

Imran Bashir has an M.Sc. in Information Security from Royal Holloway, University of London, and has a background in software development, solution architecture, infrastructure management, and IT service management. He is also a member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) and the British Computer Society (BCS). Imran has extensive experience in both the public and financial sectors, having worked on large-scale IT projects in the public sector before moving to the financial services industry. Since then, he has worked in various technical roles for different financial companies in Europe's financial capital, London.
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