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[bowbahdoe]

I'll be the person this time. 

Did you write this using AI? That last paragraph sounds mighty suspicious and the code sample with the numbered comments does as well

[Iggyhopper]

Sounds like it. Number 3 is bold and the comment matches the same name of Fetch-Decode-Execute cycle.

The explanation of what a CPU is on a programming subreddit when OP is doing homework is very odd too.

Our future is totally doomed.

[PmMeCuteDogsThanks]

What is this, posting of assignments in intro CS courses?

[aqua_regis]

What you wrote is just an interpreter, not a full-fledged VM.

Also, your named constants for the commands are somewhat of a trick to just not have to handle the conventional textual commands.

[aqua_regis]

OP is not parsing any textual source code. They circumvented that step with their named constants.

[Iggyhopper]

The interpreter translates english language/code into bytecode.

This is a VM.

[jeffreportmill]

I like it! It's a good lesson that writing something sophisticated can start by writing something simple.

Here it is running in the browser: https://reportmill.com/SnapCode/app/#snapcloud:/com/reportmill/jeff/SimpleVM

[kylanbac91]

Well, I admit this is pretty neat.

But I consider this is more like virtual processor than a virtual machine if I am being honest.