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Computer Languages, Systems Structures 32 (2006) 109–124 /locate/cl Inter-language reflection: A conceptual model and its implementation Kris Gybelsa,?, Roel Wuytsb, Stéphane Ducassec, Maja D’Hondtd aVrije Universiteit Brussel, Brussels, Belgium bUniversité Libre de Bruxelles, Brussels, Belgium cLISTIC, Université de Savoie, France dUniversité des Sciences et Technologies de Lille, Villeneuve D’Ascq, France Received 20 September 2005 Abstract Meta programming is the act of reasoning about a computational system. For example, a program in Prolog can reason about a program written in Smalltalk.