Enhancement through extension: the extension interpreter
SIGPLAN '87 Papers of the Symposium on Interpreters and interpretive techniques
Interconnecting heterogeneous computer systems
Communications of the ACM
Multi-model parallel programming in psyche
PPOPP '90 Proceedings of the second ACM SIGPLAN symposium on Principles & practice of parallel programming
ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology (TOSEM)
Semantics for communication primitives in a polymorphic language
POPL '93 Proceedings of the 20th ACM SIGPLAN-SIGACT symposium on Principles of programming languages
Distributed software engineering
ICSE '94 Proceedings of the 16th international conference on Software engineering
A model for multiparadigm systems
CSC '91 Proceedings of the 19th annual conference on Computer Science
A Compositional Approach to Multiparadigm Programming
IEEE Software
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An approach for facilitating mixed language programming in distributed systems is presented. It is based on adding a generic remote procedure call facility to each language, and the use of a type system to describe procedural interfaces, as well as data to be transferred between procedures. This type scheme also specifies a machine-independent representation for all data. By defining standard mappings for each programming language, the data conversions required for cross-langauge calls may be performed, automatically in most cases, by active agents that provide the interface between program components written in different languages. When necessary, explicit control of the conversation is possible. A prototype implementation of a system based on this approach has been constructed on a collection of machines running Berkeley UNIX®.