ngmichael/ninjavm

Open-Source implementation of the Ninja Virtual Machine

Ninja Virtual Machine

What is NinjaVM?

The Ninja Virtual Machine was created as a university project. This project was used to teach students the basics of low-level programming in the C language. The purpose of this VM is to execute programs written in the Ninja-Language, where Ninja is an acronym for Ninja is not Java. Ninja is an object-oriented langauge. It can do all the basic things allmost any other OO-Language can do such as arithmetic expressions, global and local variables, procedure calls, Records, Arrays, control-flow, and so on. Something that is rather unique to Ninja is its ability to do arithmetic with numbers of arbitrary length.

Why would I use this?

I don't know! This is just a personal hobby project for me at this point. The semester is over and I could just stop working on this, but I had so much fun during the semester that I decided to continue to work on this. Clone the repository, tinker around with it and have some fun (if you like this sort of thing).

How do I use it?

To use the VM is relatively straight forward. To launch the VM, simply type:

    $ ./njvm myProgram.bin

Obviously you will need a program that has been compiled for the NinjaVM. I will start to implement my own version of the Ninja tool chain starting sometime in February. Until that is completed, I would advise you to use the assebler and compiler from the university course.

Additional information

For additional information, visit the homepage from the professor at my university. Please note though, that it is in German.