Is this a true statement?

[Andrew Dalke]

Steven D. Majewski replied to David Lees:
>Turing completeness means that anything you can *COMPUTE* in one
>language you can computer in another.
  ...
>But you can't *DO* all of the same things in all languages -- for
>example: you can write a device driver in a language if you can't
>specify interrupt vectors or hardware address pointers.

My favorite counter example is allocating objects from different
memory arenas (eg, shared memory).  In C++ it's very easy.  In
Python it isn't possible.

                    Andrew
                    dalke at acm.org