Comment by mcphage
6 years ago
I believe Joel Spolsky discussed this in an article, having a wart on the name to represent if strings have raw inputs which are at risk of injection attacks.
6 years ago
I believe Joel Spolsky discussed this in an article, having a wart on the name to represent if strings have raw inputs which are at risk of injection attacks.
I wonder why Taint Checking (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taint_checking) never caught on in more languages.
I mean, I’ve got a pretty good idea why it never caught on in English...
It pre-dates the slang term by quite a while, unless it was around back in 1989? I don't recall seeing that online until the last decade or so.
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Seems less useful in languages with strong static type systems?