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Re:How Kal Compiles Itself by aa0 on Sunday August 18, 2013 @03:24AM (#6231986)
While it may be cool that Kal compiles itself, unless there is a source tree for the Kal binaries themselves, there is a indubitably huge issue of trust with distributing binaries.

Relevant: http://cm.bell-labs.com/who/ken/trust.html

Re:How Kal Compiles Itself by spicyj on Sunday August 18, 2013 @03:55AM (#6232037)
The article links to that very page:

> anarbi posted a great [link] about how compilers can contain a memory of things that are no longer in the code.