# Cadence Programming Language The Cadence Programming Language is a new high-level programming language intended for smart contract development. The language's goals are, in order of importance: * **Safety and security**: Provide a strong static type system, design by contract (preconditions and postconditions), and resources (inspired by linear types). * **Auditability**: Focus on readability: Make it easy to verify what the code is doing, and make intentions explicit, at a small cost of verbosity. * **Simplicity**: Focus on developer productivity and usability: Make it easy to write code, provide good tooling. --- # Agent Instructions: Querying This Documentation If you need additional information that is not directly available in this page, you can query the documentation dynamically by asking a question. Perform an HTTP GET request on the current page URL with the `ask` query parameter: ``` GET https://max-daunarovich.gitbook.io/flow-network/master.md?ask= ``` The question should be specific, self-contained, and written in natural language. The response will contain a direct answer to the question and relevant excerpts and sources from the documentation. Use this mechanism when the answer is not explicitly present in the current page, you need clarification or additional context, or you want to retrieve related documentation sections.