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Added README detail on what NDBL does not provide Getty Ritter 10 years ago

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137	137	nicename="H-G Remote Server"
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	139	NDBL does not provide arbitrarily-nested hierarchical strutures,
	140	a list type, a numeric type, a boolean type, or other niceties. This does not
	141	prevent the programmer from interpreting a value as numeric or boolean,
	142	or from using groups in an ad-hoc way to represent hierarchical data—it
	143	merely means that NDBL does not understand those as primitives, nor does it
	144	provide an interface in its API for understanding or manipulating them.
	145	For example, a tree structure could hypothetically be represented
	146	b a series of named nodes
	147
	148	name=A parent=root
	149	name=B parent=A
	150	name=C parent=A
	151	name=D parent=C
	152
	153	but in the event that such structures arise, it would be better to switch from
	154	NDBL to a proper data storage format.
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139	156	Haskell API
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