a history question

From: Bob (bob_peterson_at_rediffmail.com)
Date: 09/27/04 

Date: 27 Sep 2004 09:43:37 -0700

Was C really the first language to be platform independent?
If yes what was the nature of other languages which were there before
C like fortran ,basic,cobol?
weren't they platform independent at that time?
what were the platform they were running on then?

greetings,
Bob

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