Probably not in the least for developers, but it does affect beginners a lot.
I used to teach Java, and the total sum of magic incantations you needed before starting to actually "Hello, world" were an instant turn off for many students.
I used to teach Java, and the total sum of magic incantations you needed before starting to actually "Hello, world" were an instant turn off for many students.
From my recollections as a student, compiling C or C++ in intro classes was just a matter of calling `gcc myprogram.c` or `g++ myprogram.cpp`, followed by `./a.out` for testing, which is rather easy to explain to students who already know what a command-line is.