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+# Design Patterns for Parser Combinators
+Welcome to the home for the _talk_ of our 2021 Haskell Symposium paper:
+[Design Patterns for Parser Combinators](https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3471874.3472984).
+
+## What is the paper about?
+This paper is about identifying and documenting design patterns that help to
+organise and abstract parsers written in the parser combinator style. In particular,
+in this repo we will use a parsec style library called `miniparsec`, contained
+within. In particular, this talk will cover the majority of sections 2 and 3 from the
+paper. As time goes on, we may extend this repo to cover more topics.
+
+## What is the future of this repo?
+Aside from just being the home of the talk, I'd like this to be a place where we can
+collect our common knowledge, via the discussions and possibly even more examples outside of the mocked one used in the talk.
+
+Without further ado: time to exit the meta...
+
+# Really Cool Calculator Inc
+Hi! We're a start-up with a vision to make a cool calcuator app, written in Haskell,
+for all your basic arithmetic needs. We're an open source team and happy to take collaborators to help make our dream come true: get everyone using Haskell for calculation. Please see the "Good Issue for Newcomer" issues to help get you started.
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