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 `pond` is an attempt at building a useful IDE for a static language with a
 smart compiler.
 
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 Within the caleidoscope of inference, blood and silicone become friends.
 The fish nibble on clammy fingers, and the machine sings me a lullaby:
 a dream within a dream of knowledge only it possesses.