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Philosophically speaking there is no difference.

What parent commenter probably refers to is that you think in terms of computations and not in terms of data units.

And that is just tremendously elegant.

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Philosophically speaking there's a great difference.

Data shuffling doesn't —in principle— lose information; computation does. ("evaluation is forgetting")

In https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32498382 "glue code" and "parsley code" are data shuffling, while "crunch code" is computation.

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Surely someone could find a taxonomy that makes a distinction...

I guess we have to colive in a world where both views are true.

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Luckily we have a whole partial order of equalities from which we all may choose, et de gustibus.

(compare https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40714086 )