Depending on your choice of platform, pretty much yes.
For Windows, there is the Microsoft Visual Studio über-IDE that has a C compiler buried in all those gigabytes of cruft. It is used by over 99.9% of all Windows developers. Its market dominance makes next to impossible to market Windows development tools.
If you are talking about Mac, there is... GNU C. It is used by just about every Mac developer that uses Xcode (although they prefer Objective-C, with good reason). It comes free with OSX and is really good.
If you are talking about Linux... GNU C is there.
And so on. GNU C is available for just about every platform.
And all this also has a price. It's painful to write a C program that will run the same on Linux, Windows and Mac, much less "look right" on any of them. And I know wx helps a lot with this.
It's not about having one "universal" implementation, but rather an "obvious" one.
BTW, Python comes in many flavors - IronPython, Jython and the vanilla Python are readily available for you to chose.
Pretty much yes
Depending on your choice of platform, pretty much yes.
For Windows, there is the Microsoft Visual Studio über-IDE that has a C compiler buried in all those gigabytes of cruft. It is used by over 99.9% of all Windows developers. Its market dominance makes next to impossible to market Windows development tools.
If you are talking about Mac, there is... GNU C. It is used by just about every Mac developer that uses Xcode (although they prefer Objective-C, with good reason). It comes free with OSX and is really good.
If you are talking about Linux... GNU C is there.
And so on. GNU C is available for just about every platform.
And all this also has a price. It's painful to write a C program that will run the same on Linux, Windows and Mac, much less "look right" on any of them. And I know wx helps a lot with this.
It's not about having one "universal" implementation, but rather an "obvious" one.
BTW, Python comes in many flavors - IronPython, Jython and the vanilla Python are readily available for you to chose.