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-# barnardsstar
-An experimental EDN parser for Project Mentat.
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+This crate implements a basic EDN parser for Project Mentat.
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+It was originally developed as a separate project called [barnardsstar][1].
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+[1]: https://github.com/joewalker/barnardsstar