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From: "Randy Brukardt" <randy@rrsoftware.com>
Subject: Re: can one make a static build Ada+GUI GTK application?
Date: Thu, 28 Feb 2013 20:46:30 -0600
Date: 2013-02-28T20:46:30-06:00	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <kgp4q8$t19$1@munin.nbi.dk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: vg64iet15qab$.1ooflv615alkw$.dlg@40tude.net

"Dmitry A. Kazakov" <mailbox@dmitry-kazakov.de> wrote in message 
news:vg64iet15qab$.1ooflv615alkw$.dlg@40tude.net...
> On Wed, 27 Feb 2013 18:46:09 -0600, Nasser M. Abbasi wrote:
>
>> Ok, so I made a program and I want to email it
>> to my grandmother's aunt to play a game on the computer.
>> My Aunt has no clue what is a package manager is. She just
>> knows how to click using a mouse.
>
> Hmm, actually people who don't know computers have much bigger 
> difficulties
> with very concept of a file being kept somewhere, moved around, executed.

True enough; my Dad, who was using PCs since the very beginning with CP/M, 
still can't quite grasp the idea of copying files. With him, they stay where 
they are created, even if that was the wrong place. Drag-and-drop apparently 
isn't as intuitive as it seems.

                              Randy.






  parent reply	other threads:[~2013-03-01  2:46 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 32+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-02-17 16:39 can one make a static build Ada+GUI GTK application? Nasser M. Abbasi
2013-02-17 17:04 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2013-02-18 23:30   ` Randy Brukardt
2013-02-19  4:33     ` Nasser M. Abbasi
2013-02-19 20:47       ` slos
2013-02-22  4:56 ` Patrick
2013-02-22 23:29   ` Nasser M. Abbasi
2013-02-23  8:06     ` Simon Wright
2013-02-23  8:22       ` Nasser M. Abbasi
2013-02-23 17:09         ` Simon Wright
2013-02-23 12:47 ` Dirk Heinrichs
2013-02-23 13:01   ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2013-02-25 23:25   ` Randy Brukardt
2013-02-28  0:00     ` Björn Persson
2013-02-28  0:46       ` Nasser M. Abbasi
2013-02-28  8:58         ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2013-02-28 12:59           ` Nasser M. Abbasi
2013-02-28 13:44             ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2013-02-28 23:16               ` Nasser M. Abbasi
2013-03-01  8:56                 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2013-03-01 10:39                   ` Georg Bauhaus
2013-03-01 13:06                     ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2013-03-01 22:05                     ` Randy Brukardt
2013-03-01  2:53               ` Randy Brukardt
2013-03-01  8:41                 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2013-03-01 11:57                   ` Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57)
2013-03-02  0:18                   ` Dennis Lee Bieber
2013-03-02  7:52                     ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2013-03-02 17:17                       ` Dennis Lee Bieber
2013-03-01  2:46           ` Randy Brukardt [this message]
2013-03-01  2:37       ` Randy Brukardt
2013-03-02 19:00         ` Shark8
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