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+# 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 Panick!** and keep reading. This is a live document and will develop together with the runtime itself.
+
+**TABLE OF CONTENTS**
+
+1. [DESIDERATA](DESIDERATA.md)
+2. [Memory Model](memory_model.md)
+