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– “It doesn’t work. I don’t know how to run this.”
– “Ok, did you install the Python interpreter?”
– “No, what’s that?”
– “You have to download it from www.python.org. Get the 2.7 version.”
– “Yeah, it’s ok. I’ll just use something else.”

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  • 10
    If I were an average user, I'd say the same thing.
  • 4
    You gotta remember how daunting computers seem to the computer illiterate.
  • 0
    To be honest I would respond the same way
    Except the what's that part obviously
  • 2
    @LicensedCrime Don't you need the .NET runtime for your C# app? Or (depending on how you compile) the Visual C++ Redistributable for C/C++ on Windows?
  • 0
    @ErwinJanssen the .NET runtime is preinstalled on newer Windows versions, so that's not a problem

    And to be honest, that's one reason I don't use Python: I don't want to overwhelm users by some requirements they don't understand
  • 4
    @Krokoklemme There is a beautiful little thing called py2exe that compiles python files into executables that do not need the interpreter.
  • 0
    @Godisalie fair enough, I'm still not a fan of the language itself
  • 1
    @Krokoklemme Yeah, everyone his own and I agree that python has some... kinks in its design that make it do some unintuitive things. I like it for server side scripting but wouldn't want to do bigger projects only relying in it.
  • 0
    I had a friend who couldn't get typescript to install on his Mac. Couldn't even install npm to get typescript. He said he'll send the code and I can compile it ..
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