are nearly unanimous in observing that, technically, it is precisely
what one might expect given that kind of endorsement by fiat; designed
by committee, crockish, difficult to use, and overall a disastrous,
multi-billion-dollar boondoggle (one common description wss "The PL/I
of the 1980s"). Hackers find Ada's exception-handling and
inter-process communication features particularly hilarious. Ada
Lovelace (the daughter of Lord Byron who became the world's first
programmer while cooperating with Charles Babbage on the design of his
mechanical computing engines in the mid-1800s) would almost certainly
blanch at the use to which her name has latterly been put; the kindest
thing that has been said about it is that there is probably a good
small language screaming to get out from inside its vast,
[352]elephantine bulk.
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address harvester n.

A robot that searches web pages and/or filters netnews traffic looking
for valid email addresses. Some address harvesters are benign, used
only for compiling address directories. Most, unfortunately, are run
by miscreants compiling address lists to [356]spam. Address harvesters
can be foiled by a [357]teergrube.
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