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Sol — a sunny little homemade virtual machine

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Re: Sol — a sunny little homemade virtual machine

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This warms my heart; It's wonderful to see people doing crazy stuff like this for fun.

I wouldn't call the concept itself too far-fetched. As a learning or teaching exercise, though, building virtual machines, languages, JIT compilers and the like is very interesting. I'm assuming that "Sol" is a play on "Lua", because both virtual machines seem similar.

Re: Sol — a sunny little homemade virtual machine

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Serious (non-snarky) question: are projects like this no longer standard fare for undergraduate CS majors? This example is rather comprehensive and well-documented, but is almost spot on what all 50-75 of us had to do for a Junior-level class at Georgia Tech back in 2003 or so.

Re: Sol — a sunny little homemade virtual machine

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Serious (non-snarky) question: are projects like this no longer standard fare for undergraduate CS majors? This example is rather comprehensive and well-documented, but is almost spot on what all 50-75 of us had to do for a Junior-level class at Georgia Tech back in 2003 or so.

From my personal experience no they aren't, although I would have loved to have gone somewhere where they were.

Re: Sol — a sunny little homemade virtual machine

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Serious (non-snarky) question: are projects like this no longer standard fare for undergraduate CS majors? This example is rather comprehensive and well-documented, but is almost spot on what all 50-75 of us had to do for a Junior-level class at Georgia Tech back in 2003 or so.

Really depends on your school. I went to a little podunk college (graduated in '02) with a tiny CS department and we did not do anything nearly this complex. You went to a top 10 CS school and did stuff like this. I don't have any real data but I imagine the situation is probably the same these days.

Re: Sol — a sunny little homemade virtual machine

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Serious (non-snarky) question: are projects like this no longer standard fare for undergraduate CS majors? This example is rather comprehensive and well-documented, but is almost spot on what all 50-75 of us had to do for a Junior-level class at Georgia Tech back in 2003 or so.

Really depends on your school. I went to a little podunk college (graduated in '02) with a tiny CS department and we did not do anything nearly this complex. You went to a top 10 CS school and did stuff like this. I don't have any real data but I imagine the situation is probably the same these days.

I'm a Canadian and we did something exactly like this as well for a junior level class.
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