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You might want to clarify that you aren't Russ Cox and that this post is a summary of a presentation he gave.

Thanks for mentioning this. I initially included "(unofficial liveblog post)" in the HN title, but it apparently was edited out by a moderator. So, I added a clarification to the top of the post itself.

Are you at all concerned about the possibility of the Trusting Trust[1] problem manifesting in any of your Go compilers?

[1] http://cm.bell-labs.com/who/ken/trust.html

Since this is an exercise divorced from reality, the usual vehicle was FORTRAN.

Dang it I cheated and looked up Rus's quine. For anyone not wanting to cheat a good hint would be "tail recursion"

It was suggested long ago that having multiple compilers would make it incredibly difficult to play Trusting Trust games.

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