[protomyth]

I don't think anyone thought OpenSSL was good code even before Heartbleed. Bob Beck pointed that out in his LibreSSL talk https://youtu.be/GnBbhXBDmwU

[pdimitar]

Then he's the exception, at least anecdotally in my career and life. Most C/C++ programmers I've known were ready to defend their code quality with their fists. They were in complete denial.