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copied!<p>First, it's better for you to distinguish <em>language</em> and <em>API/toolkits</em> in your question.</p> <ul> <li>On the one hand, there is a cross-platform language like C (it's not just cross-platform; it's ubiquitous!) but it doesn't translate to the ability to write a GUI app which can be compiled and runs on many systems.</li> <li>On the other hand, there is a cross-platform GUI API/toolkitss like <a href="http://www.wxwidgets.org/" rel="nofollow">wxWidgets</a> whose bindings are available in C++, <a href="http://www.wxpython.org/" rel="nofollow">python</a>, <a href="http://wxperl.sourceforge.net/" rel="nofollow">perl</a>.</li> </ul> <p>Also, note that learning how to code in a language and learning how to use an API/toolkit are two different things. Even when you already know a language, learning how to use a toolkit can take months. It also happens if you already know a toolkit, you can basically grasp a new language in a week and start writing programs in that new language with the known toolkit easily.</p> <p>Now, if your primary aim is to learn a new language, I don't think writing GUI apps is particularly a good way. Learning to use a toolkit is a bigger job in my personal opinion. </p> <p>Instead, write a command-line program which manipulates text files. At that level, every language is mostly cross-platform; you can find on-line free implementations of most languages for most platform. </p> <p>That said, if you want to write GUI apps, I would suggest <a href="http://qt.nokia.com/products/" rel="nofollow">Qt</a> toolkit with C++. It works on most platforms. Google Earth is written with it.</p> <p>Objective-C and Cocoa are a bad choice if you want portability.</p>

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