Platform Independency.

[Yogendra Joshi]

Hi Guys ,

I was thinking which other language except Java is platform independent language.

Can someone please tell me , I think this can be a interview question and i have a interview tomorrow.

Thanks in Advance.

Yogendra Joshi.

[Masoud Kalali]

There is just c which is major but it is not really crossplatform.
in case that you want it to execute in other platform than where you develop /build your application , you need to recompile it for other platform.

also all libraries that are avaiable for c/c++ are not crossplatform , some of them are available in some platforms and some other are not avaiable.

An open source project that now is owned by Novell port some part of .net class libraries , CLI ... which allows you to execute .net application on Linux but that is not really guaranteed.

htht

[Campbell Ritchie]

MS claim that all the .NET languages, particularly C#, are platform-independent, but I have never tried, and am not convinced myself.

CR

[Ernest Friedman-Hill]

Most languages are platform-independent, in the sense that you can run a program written in them on many platforms: C, C++, Ruby, Python, Perl, Smalltalk, and many more. Some of these need to be compiled separately for each platform, and some of them have libraries that are not the same on every platform. Any Microsoft language product, for example, includes Windows-only libaries. Still, there are many languages -- Ruby, Python, Perl -- with reasonably portable libraries and which don't need to be compiled on each platform. These really rival Java for portability, although Java is much faster than any of these.

But the idea of a "platform dependent language" is a rather antiquated one. The real platform-dependent languages like PL/I, the many flavors of Lisp, COBOL, etc, have been relegated to the background these days. All languages now in common use are portable at least to some extent.

[Stan James]

REXX is an ANSI standard langauge. There are interpreters on all IBM mainframe and distributed OS platforms, Windows, most Unix platforms and the Commodore Amiga. Code that uses only standard features generally runs on any platform.

[Jaime M. Tovar]

SQL as far as I know is a cross platform independent query lang. It may vary in some degree due to special vendor specific utilities. But the ANSI standard is an example of a very successful language.