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There is no such thing as a platform-free programming language. The correct term is platform-independent language. It simply means that the same source code can be compiled or interpreted upon any platform; the code is not machine-dependent.

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That would be any language that can only run on a certain type of hardware (platform). Most assembly computer languages are examples of this.

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I would guess that's an alternative description for "platform-independent" languages; a language that can run on many different platforms.

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