Parrot virtual machine as a pedagogic tool

Abstract

Such a machine is perfectly adapted to machine language learning, it makes possible to concentrate all of the teaching on the assembly characteristics disregarding all that connects it to the reality of an existing machine. Variety of instructions, their power and the fact that they quite all come from Perl 5 functions give all our students the possibility to realize again, easily, in assembly, the programs, often complex, they already wrote and checked in Perl.