First time I have heard Prof. Shimon Shocken, from the Interdisciplinary Center in Herzelya was on a Java conference some 2 or 3 years ago. He gave a presentation about the system they use to teach the CS students The Elements of Computing Systems based on the book he wrote. They use a simulator written in Java.

This seems to be a fun course and a fun system. The students start out with a couple of Nand gates and during the semester they build a computer, and start to write programs on it. If I got it right, the end of semester project is writing a compiler (I think) in Java.

In the past two year the Perl conferences in Israel were held in the IDC. This year Shimon, the Dean of the CS school, gave us the opening speach. The fun part was when he mentioned that in the last semester one of the students implemented the compiler in Perl. It took only 3 pages instead of the usual 30 in Java.

I wonder if anyone will port this system to some Parrot capable language?

In reply to Hack: Building a computer platform by szabgab

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