Aha, regardless of the whole story, which would take me a year to get through I understand the difference now. Also the nouned verb is clear.

We do have the same two, I think : gerund and infinitive, but the infinitive is always placed at the tail of a sentence.
Het is goed om te eten.

Gerund at the head of a sentence.
Eten is goed

complicated matter

And furthermore I am of the opinion that Carthage should be destroyed. grin