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Re: proftpd not run, and is gcc4 for cygwin coming?
- From: Corinna Vinschen <corinna-cygwin at cygwin dot com>
- To: "'or something.'" <cygwin-talk at cygwin dot com>
- Date: Tue, 22 Feb 2005 16:50:58 +0100
- Subject: Re: proftpd not run, and is gcc4 for cygwin coming?
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On Feb 22 15:42, Dave Korn wrote:
> As far as I can see, fish-teaching exercises are highly overrated.
>
> I once spent an entire month trying to teach Shakespeare to a school of
> guppies. By then end of it I was soaking wet, but not even one of them had
> mastered the "To be or not to be..." soliloquy from Hamlet.
>
> That's the last time I try to teach a man to fish ...
>
> ... don't suppose they'd do any better with female authors either, though.
Maybe you tried the wrong literature. You know how important the
right entry is to stay interested. Perhaps some more fishy story
like Hemingway's "The old man and the sea" or Melville's "Moby Dick"
would have attracted them.
Corinna