By the way, I am probably not reporting that accurately, but I think I'm close. Anyone know anything about it and where to find any of the code or any documents about it? There was a different group that felt LISP was more appropriate than Ada for their project. So, rather than request a waiver, they wrote a translator that took LISP input and output compilable Ada. They could then do all their work in LISP, and "comply with the mandate" by delivering Ada to the customer. But the one I referred to first actually did pretty close to what I said. Though I disagree with the intent, I would like to see that code again. -- Wes Groleau http://freepages.rootsweb.com/~wgroleau