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From: Simon Wright <simon@pushface.org>
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Subject: Re: Embedded Keynote Speaker Mentions Ada
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Marius Amado Alves <amado.alves@netcabo.pt> writes:

> > Not sure whether sucking eggs is (in your view) good or bad?
> 
> Bad. No real time. Not distributed. Monolithic. (Sorry I though
> sucking eggs was universally bad :-)

The only English idiom I know of is "teaching your grandmother to suck
eggs" (actually I think this may be a translation of a Roman idiom):
telling someone how do do something they know perfectly well how to do
already, probably better than you do. I suppose grandmothers were
short in the tooth department.

-- 
Simon Wright                               100% Ada, no bugs.