diff --git a/Dockerfile b/Dockerfile
new file mode 100644
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--- /dev/null
+++ b/Dockerfile
@@ -0,0 +1,10 @@
+FROM gcc:latest
+
+RUN apt-get update && apt-get -y install llvm-dev
+RUN git clone https://github.com/c3d/xl.git
+WORKDIR xl
+RUN make install
+WORKDIR ..
+RUN mkdir app
+WORKDIR app
+ENTRYPOINT ["/usr/local/bin/xl", "-i", "/dev/stdin"]
diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
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--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -29,6 +29,7 @@ the standard library in XL. You can replace these constructs if you
 want, or add your own. Adding a new kind of loop is not more difficult
 in XL than adding a function, and it uses the same syntax.
 
+* [Docker Quickstart](#docker-quickstart)
 * [Simple examples](#a-few-simple-examples)
 * [Dialects and use cases](#dialects-and-use-cases)
 * [If you come from another language](#if-you-come-from-another-language)
@@ -49,6 +50,17 @@ also available in [asciidoc format](docs/HANDBOOK.adoc) and
 and presently extremely messy, incomplete and inaccurate.
 
 
+## Docker Quickstart
+
+To quickly try out the intrepreter, install Docker and run the following commands:
+
+```
+docker build . -t xl
+docker run -i xl
+```
+
+(Note: to see output, you need to send an EOF signal using Control-D)
+
 ## A few simple examples
 
 A program computing the factorial of numbers between 1 and 5 would be