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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 u
by tossandthrow 2y ago
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.
- 082349872349872 2y agoPhilosophically 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 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32498382 "glue code" and "parsley code" are data shuffling, while "crunch code" is computation.
- tossandthrow 2y agoSurely someone could find a taxonomy that makes a distinction... I guess we have to colive in a world where both views are true.
- 082349872349872 2y agoLuckily 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 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40714086 )