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Ethereum Smart Contract Development
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Ethereum Smart Contract Development

by Mayukh Mukhopadhyay
February 2018
Intermediate to advanced
288 pages
6h 58m
English
Packt Publishing
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Need for solidity

Let me tell you a dirty secret about programmers. We are the laziest lot of technicians in the entire community of engineering. We work really hard to remain lazy. We abide by the oath:

"If necessity is the mother of all inventions, laziness is their father."

No wonder we love the open source movement so much. Reusing another lazy programmer's code is what we fantasize about. And to add a little sprinkle of hypocrisy, we never ever forget to complain or criticize how messy the original code was, and how heroically we drove away the bugs and documented it to make it 2.0 or higher. It is just in our blood.

But, sometimes, in this land of lazy nerds, there comes an outlier, one who writes something entirely original from scratch. ...

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