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.
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.
I guess we have to colive in a world where both views are true.
(compare https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40714086 )
