# The Hacker's Guide to GF

This is the hacker's guide to GF, for the guide to the galaxy, see the full edition [here](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Hitchhiker%27s_Guide_to_the_Galaxy).
Here we will limit outselves to the vastly narrower domain of the [GF](https://www.grammaticalframework.org) runtime. This means that we will not meet
any [Vogons](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vogon), but we will touch upon topics like memory management, databases, transactions, compilers,
functional programming, theorem proving and sometimes even languages. Subjects that no doubt would interest any curious hacker.

So, **Don't Panic!** and keep reading. This is a live document and will develop together with the runtime itself.

**TABLE OF CONTENTS**

1. Compilation
   1. [Overview](CompilationOverview.md)
   1. [Lambda Calculus](LambdaCalculus.md)
   2. [Parallel Multiple Context-Free Grammars](PMCFG.md)
2. Runtime
   1. [Desiderata](DESIDERATA.md)
   2. [Memory Model](memory_model.md)
   3. [Abstract Expressions](abstract_expressions.md)
   4. [Transactions](transactions.md)
