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Re:Sussman Explains the End of SICP by karmakaze on Saturday February 04, 2023 @05:21PM (#34659036)
A load balancer? Operating system kernel?
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Re:Sussman Explains the End of SICP by sfink on Saturday February 04, 2023 @07:32PM (#34660155)
A load balancer is a compiler. Instruction scheduling and register allocation are probably the most similar tasks.

An OS kernel is a database, or rather a DBMS. Query planning fits well.

Arguably, a load balancer is a primitive query planner. Perhaps DBMSes are compilers?

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Re:Sussman Explains the End of SICP by karmakaze on Saturday February 04, 2023 @09:41PM (#34661153)
It seems that these arguments can also be applied in reverse, so it's quite a loose interpretation, but I do see the logic in them.
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