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How Does a Non-Turing-Complete Language Enhance the Security of Smart Contracts?

A non-Turing-complete language enhances security by simplifying the code and limiting its capabilities. By disallowing complex operations like loops and recursion, the language makes the behavior of smart contracts more predictable and easier to analyze.

This reduces the attack surface for potential vulnerabilities and makes it significantly easier to audit the code for errors or malicious logic before deployment. The absence of these complex structures effectively eliminates entire classes of bugs, such as infinite loops that could drain resources.

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