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

PowerBasic

Answer 2

Goo using Goo compiler (generates ANSI C)

Answer 3

Modula 3 using Critical Mass *

(*note: compiles to ANSI C, which can compile to native code using any standard C compiler)

Answer 4

REALbasic which gives you the extra benefit of being able to compile for Mac and Linux as well.

Answer 5

OCaml compiled with OCaml compiler

Answer 6

Ada compiled with gnat