Comment by hnick
6 years ago
I wonder why Taint Checking (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taint_checking) never caught on in more languages.
6 years ago
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.
Wiktionary has it as far back as 1972, see https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/taint.
Dictionary.com claims it dates back to at least 1977, but I have no idea.
Seems less useful in languages with strong static type systems?