What I understand from your post, it is not possible what you want. The idea of a truly stand alone program or software is not possible in current technolgy. A true stand alone and platform independent program that can run without the support of anything else? how can that be? Even the web sites you visit is not truly stand alone. You have to use a browser to view it. As Hasnut pointed out in the other post, you must provide a minimum environment for a program to run. This environment vary depending on the language you use. If you develop the program in .net you have to have .net framework running in the machine to execute the program.
The language that comes closest to developing your dream program is Java. Because Java uses a virtual machine environment you can develop a program in java and be reasonably certain that the program would run more or less okay so long as the client machine has java virtual machine(jvm) installed in it. That's the only requirement. It does not matter if the platform was linux or windows or solaris. Any other program is dependent on the operating system of the client machine. You must develop different version of the program for each seperate OS. .net would only run in windows. A C++ developed in visual studio won't find many libraries that it used on a linux machine.
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