Distributed App - C++ with Python for Portability?

[Bob Martin]

in 337600 20080310 222850 dave_mikesell at fastmail.fm wrote:
>On Mar 10, 2:21 pm, Bob Martin <bob.mar... at excite.com> wrote:
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>> Java is more portable than most other languages, especially if your app needs a gui.
>
>The promise of Java portability was one of the biggest scams ever
>perpetrated on the software industry.  There are issues going from OS
>to OS, VM to VM, DB to DB, app server to app server, etc.  Certainly
>no easier than porting C++ and the appropriate libraries, IMHO.

Quite untrue - I have a stack of large java apps which run without change on
Linux, OS/2 and Windows.  Not many, if any, other languages can match that,
and definitely not C++.