............ OK, though I'm still no Ada expert, I'd guess that Ada would also be a suitable target language, so if we'd choose to go for a converter, the choice of target language might now depend on who's most familiar with it or prefers it personally. So far it seems to be only one for Ada (you) and only one for C++ (me). Frank
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