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The idea of symlinking README.md to docs/Home.md didn't work for autogeneration.

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For the `master` branch I'm going back to having a separate README.md. Thought
should be given into making that update from docs/Home.md from time to time,
but URLs need to be fixed up which is awkward.
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# Post Scarcity Software Environment: general documentation
Work towards the implementation of a software system like that described in [Post Scarcity Software](https://www.journeyman.cc/blog/posts-output/2006-02-20-postscarcity-software/).
Work towards the implementation of a software system for the hardware of the deep future.
## Note on canonicity
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| subtract | FUNC | `(- a b)`: Subtracts `b` from `a` and returns the result. Expects both arguments to be numbers. |
| throw | FUNC | `(throw message cause)`: Throw an exception with this `message`, and, if specified, this `cause` (which is expected to be an exception but need not be).|
| time | FUNC | `(time arg)`: Return a time object. If an `arg` is supplied, it should be an integer which will be interpreted as a number of microseconds since the big bang, which is assumed to have happened 441,806,400,000,000,000 seconds before the UNIX epoch. |
| try | SPFM | `(try forms... (catch catch-forms...))`: Evaluate `forms` sequentially, and return the value of the last. If an exception is thrown in any, evaluate `catch-forms` sequentially in an environment in which `*exception*` is bound to that exception, and return the value of the last of these. |
| try | SPFM | `(try forms... (catch symbol forms...))`: Doesn't work yet! |
| type | FUNC | `(type object)`: returns the type of the specified `object`. Currently (0.0.6) the type is returned as a four character string; this may change. |
| λ | SPFM | `(lamda arg-list forms...)`: Construct an interpretable λ function. |