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== Design and heritage ==
 
The design, syntax and semantics of Sparkling have been influenced by several precedingpopular languages, such as C, Python, Lua and JavaScript (the latter being mostly negatively credited). This implies that parts of the language have a lot in common with these technologies. For example, its syntax should be familiar for someone having coded in C or JavaScript, the strict but dynamic type system resembles that of Python, and the "drop-in" library nature of the implementation was admittedly inspired by Lua.
 
Quite a few design decisions oppose the architecture of the aforementioned languages, though. For example, in contrast with most popular scripting languages, Sparkling has two numeric types. It operates not only on floating-point numbers, but on integers as well. Operations involving both floating-point and integral operands have well-defined semantics, similar to that in C.
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