Virtual Machine implemented as a Domain Specific Language in Ruby

Abstract

Some time ago I created a simple programming language that was compiled to its own assembly language, a file in this assembly language could be executed in a Virtual Machine or be compiled to an executable form. Today I will present an idea how to use Domain Specific Language (DSL) created in Ruby to load and execute the assembly file just as a regular Ruby script.

Implementation

A sample of an assembly file is presented below, it's intuitive except the "int" mnemonic, it means "interruption", int 0 pops element from the stack and prints it on STDOUT. There aren't any registers, everything is done by using a stack.

bar:
    int 0
ret

foo:
    call bar
    ret

main:
    push 13
    call foo
    ret

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