SPL is a powerful scripting language. It features hashes, regular expressions, objects, exceptions, a built-in template language, and has a C-style syntax. It can be used stand-alone or embedded in other applications. The entire SPL toolchain (compiler, assembler, virtual machine, etc.) is pretty small (about 100k on x86 architectures). One of the more advanced VM features is the capability to dump the entire VM state to a file and resume later. It even is possible to resume on another machine with a different architecture.
