Native Windows Application Development Options

Question

Long winded title, short question:

If one wants to develop for Windows but not have to rely on any external dependency (no runtime, thus ruling out .net), what suppo

Answer 1

eiffel using SmartEiffel*

(*note SmartEiffel interprets eiffel, and generates ANSI C code, which can be compiled with any standard C compiler. It also generates Java byte code.)