Master’s Thesis in Computer Science with

Software projects tend to grow to exist of large quantities of program code. Most of this code will probably be support code for secondary features. It is known that some programming languages are more concise than others (i.e. they require less lines of program code to implement a function point). Most notably, higher-level ‘‘dynamic’ ’ programming languages tend to be more concise than lower-level ‘‘static’ ’ programming languages, making them suitable to be used for such support code. However, lower-level programming languages certainly have advantages of their own, most notably in terms of execution speed, and tighter integration with the underlying operating system and hardware. Many attempts exist to make software components, written in different programming languages, interoperate with eachother. We divide these into two groups, distributed and non-distributed approaches. Our research has focussed on the non-distributed approaches. To interface with an existing software component (a shared library in our case), often a solution that uses such a non-distributed approach requires a seperately compiled shared library, which is the result of extensive programming, or, the solution uses a specification. The programmatic solutions that we have come across, because of their programmatic nature, made it hard to establish th