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+# parscan
+
+Parscan is an experimental project to test a single parser to multiple
+languages and virtual machines.
+
+The first language definition is a subset of Go, enough to implement
+simple benchmarks, as fibonacci numbers.
+
+The first VM is a stack machine, operated by walking  directly the AST.
+
+The next step is to add a byte-code based VM and the corresponding byte code
+generator.
+
+Further steps is to get closer to full Go spec and / or introduce new
+languages definitions and new VM implementations.
+
+Note: this is highly experimental and unstable.