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		<h2 class="center">A completely object oriented machine</h2>
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    A fully self describing object system without external dependencies capable of executing dynamic
		object oriented languages like ruby or python.
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    <h2 class="center">Goal</h2>
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			The goal is to execute object oriented code without external dependencies, on modern hardware.
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			No external dependencies means a system that defines an object oriented system language
			that compiles to assembler. A sort of object version of c, but without using c.
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			It must be possible to compile higher level, dynamic, object oriented languages into this
			language, in a similar way that c++ is compiled into c (at least used to be). So ruby compiles
			to soml which compiles to assembler which compiles to binaries. <b>No interpretation.</b>
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			Most of the system is defined in a higher level language (ruby) and only a small runtime,
			mostly for operating system acccess, needs to be written in the system language.
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    <h2 class="center">Status</h2>
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			A first version of the system language is now <a href="/soml/soml.html">done.</a>.
			The staticaly typed language is called SOML (salama object machine language), has a roughly
			ruby-ish syntax while c-ish semantics, and introduces several new concept:
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				<li> Object based memory (no global memory) </li>
				<li> Multiple return addresses based on type  </li>
				<li> Multiple implementations per function based on type  </li>
				<li> Implicit type tracking using adaptive code</li>
				<li> Explicit <a href="/2015/06/20/the-static-call-chain.html">message and frame objects</a></li>
				<li> <a href="http://book.salama-vm.org/register/machine.html">Register machine abstraction</a></li>
				<li> <a href="http://book.salama-vm.org/object/instructions.html">Extensible</a> instruction set</li>
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			An abstract risc like register level defines some abstraction from the actual hardware. The
			compiler compiles to this level, but a mapping to Arm is provided to produce  <b>working binaries</b>.
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      There is also an interpreter (mostly for testing) and a basic
      <a href="https://github.com/salama/salama-debugger"> visual debugger</a> which not only helps
      debugging, but also understanding of the machine.
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      The short introduction is under the <a href="/salama/layers.html">architecture</a> menu.
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      The section on SOML gives an overview of the <a href="/soml/soml.html">system language</a>.
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      The full documentation is in form of a gitbook and can be <a href="/book.html">viewed here.</a>
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      The <a href="/project/motivation.html">about</a> section has some info of when and how this
      started. If you feel like contributing <a href="/contribute.html">read this</a> or write a
			<a href="https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/salama-dev"> mail </a>.
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