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    crc's _ _
         (_) | ___
         | | |/ _ \  a tiny virtual computer
         | | | (_) | 64kw RAM, 32-bit, Dual Stack, MISC
         |_|_|\___/  (c) charles childers
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 # Welcome!
 
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 ilo are included. These include Assembly, C, C++, C#, Common
 Lisp, D, Go, Hare, JavaScript, Kotlin, Lua, Nim, Python,
 RetroForth, Rust, Swift, and TypeScript.
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