[082349872349872]

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.

[tossandthrow]

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

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

[082349872349872]

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 )