It's old code that nobody touches. It's written in C. Of course it's going to be bad. Tcl/Tk is old code written in C. It's beautiful code; an absolute joy to

It's old code that nobody touches. It's written in C. Of course it's going to be bad. Tcl/Tk is old code written in C. It's beautiful code; an absolute joy to work with. It was beautiful ten years ago, and it'll still be beautiful a hundred years from now when it is long forgotten by all but a handful of historians. OpenSSL is a miserable codebase, and always has been. Yes, bitching about other people's code is a popular hobby. Sometimes bitch because it's always easier to write something new than to understand the logic behind something old. And sometimes people bitch because the code is an absolute nightmare to work with. OpenSSL is the latter.