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Language Influences
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Solidity is a `curly-bracket language <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_programming_languages_by_type#Curly-bracket_languages>`_
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that has been influenced and inspired by several well-known programming languages.
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Solidity is most profoundly influenced by C++, but also borrowed concepts from languages like
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Python, JavaScript, and others.
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The influence from C++ can be seen in the syntax for variable declarations, for loops, the concept
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of overloading functions, implicit and explicit type conversions and many other details.
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In the early days of the language, Solidity used to be partly influenced by JavaScript.
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This was due to function-level scoping of variables and the use of the keyword ``var``.
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The JavaScript influence was reduced starting from version 0.4.0.
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Now, the main remaining similarity to JavaScript is that functions are defined using the keyword
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``function``. Solidity also supports import syntax and semantics that
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are similar to those available in JavaScript. Besides those points, Solidity looks like
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most other curly-bracket languages and has no major JavaScript influence anymore.
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Another influence to Solidity was Python. Solidity's modifiers were added trying to model
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Python's decorators with a much more restricted functionality. Furthermore, multiple inheritance, C3 linearization,
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and the ``super`` keyword are taken from Python as well as the general assignment and copy semantics of value
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and reference types.
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