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FWIW the first practical application of input tainting that comes to mind is Perl's circa 2001, although I wouldn't be surprised to hear Smalltalk went there before.




Yeah, but with holes. Eg affecting Bugzilla. Only closed 2018 in cperl (hash keys). perl5 never cared to close its taint holes.




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