Originally posted by sergio mendez-rueda:
Here "the something-ruby":
That doesn't prove much. Ruby has different language concepts than Java, so sometimes you can't do things the same way; but it's certainly possible to do them.
Just about all programming languages are alike in that they are
Turing complete, so there's nothing one language can do that another positively can't. The differences are in the kinds of problems that are easy in one vs. easy in the other, as Lasse pointed out. That depends a great deal on what you'd use the language for, and thus can't be answered in general.