[Sussex] Programming languages and plaform portability

[Mark Harrison (Groups)]

Thomas Adam wrote:

>>Sadly I don't know as IDE system I use is cross platform 1 source code
>>compiles for all systems Mac, Windows, Linux. I don't want to get to
>>dumped down in the in's and out's of each system. Thats why I have
>>gone down this route.
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>>
>... which has bitten you square on the arse, it seems.  As nice a
>sentiment as it may seem, this method of doing things is somewhat
>restrictive.  Read [2] and you'll see how to compile usual applications.
>  
>
Out of interest, is anyone else writing code to work across 
Linux/Windows/other?

If so, what language(s) are you using.

The majority of code I've _used_ has been in C, but required the 
installation of something like Cygwin on the Windows side to work.

The (admittedly, very little) code I've written has been in Python, but 
that then requires the installation of Python onto any platform, and 
doesn't just let me make up executables (unless there's some really cool 
feature of Python I've not come across.)

M.