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Malcolm: Prevent Trojan Source attacks with GCC 12

Malcolm: Prevent Trojan Source attacks with GCC 12

Posted Jan 17, 2022 5:41 UTC (Mon) by NYKevin (subscriber, #129325)
In reply to: Malcolm: Prevent Trojan Source attacks with GCC 12 by tialaramex
Parent article: Malcolm: Prevent Trojan Source attacks with GCC 12

It's not just scripts, either. English (and many other western European languages, to be fair) has this really weird feature called "tense," where you have to indicate whether something happened in the past or the not-past, for every single sentence that you write. This is grammatically required; future constructions, for example, can be written in several different ways (using modal "will", using the "[be] going to" construction, just specifying a time as in "Tomorrow, I go to the store", etc.), but every single one of those constructions absolutely *must* be in the not-past tense, and every single sentence that actually takes place in the past must be in the past tense (can't write "*Yesterday, I go to the store"). There are plenty of languages that just don't require a tense, so you don't have to describe when everything happens if you don't feel that it is relevant.


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