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From: "Randy Brukardt" <randy@rrsoftware.com>
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Subject: Re: can one make a static build Ada+GUI GTK application?
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"Dmitry A. Kazakov" <mailbox@dmitry-kazakov.de> wrote in message 
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> 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.