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+# Programmer's Notepad
+
+[Programmer's Notepad](http://www.pnotepad.org/) is a text editor for Windows.
+
+
+![Dark Theme](http://www.pnotepad.org/wp-content/uploads/2008/03/darktheme.png)
+
+It is primarily written in C++ and extensible using Python, and is built on the following technologies:
+  - [Scintilla](https://www.scintilla.org/)
+  - [WTL](http://sourceforge.net/projects/wtl/)
+  - [Boost](http://www.boost.org/)
+
+## Getting Started
+
+Clone the tree, then see the [Build Instructions](http://pnotepad.org/docs/dev/how_to_compile_pn/)