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-Attempt to make a programming language of some sort
+Precedent is an interpreted language that I made without knowing how interpreters work.
+As a result, it probably does some really weird and inefficient things! But I wanted to figure it
+out for myself.
+
+The basic recursive structure is an evolution of an old idea I had for a boolean logic simulator
+I was working on at the time. Essentially, values resolve recursively through functions until hitting literals,
+which return themselves.
+
+Everything in precedent is a symbol. Every symbol is either a literal or a key.
+A key is either a store()'d symbol, or an internal function. Internal functions
+have an implementation defined by eval.c, whereas keys are simply pointers to other
+symbols, as stored in a hashtable.
+
+Read the files in doc/ for more specific information, or look at examples/ to see
+what the syntax looks like and what's possible.