Difficulties of transforming a Java program to another language (or vice versa)

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Published on 2010-04-11T16:10:37Z Indexed on 2010/04/11 16:13 UTC
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Is there anything simple Java can't do that can be done in a similar language or vice versa?

Lets say you have a piece of software in language X and you rewrite it entirely to Java (or the other way around), what are the little things that would seriously hamper the translation?

At first I was thinking of comprehensions or multiple exit loops, but these are easily rewritten with a for_each loop with an if statement and a local variable respectively.

Maybe Exceptions? But which language does not have a similar construct?
Polymorphism? But I don't see how I could show that in a few lines.

I'm looking for a short and sweet example, that would give some serious headache to work around.

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