I think you and a sibling comment might be too close to the problem. When heartbleed dropped my Twitter feed had a few crypto engineers saying "I mean, eventually this was going to happen" and a ton of developers whose main language starts with a "p" going "how?? OpenSSL is core plumbing of the internet, it can't be this bad can it???".

Edit: to be clear, not maligning the "p" language developers, I was one myself. Simply saying there are a ton of technical people who are blissfully ignorant of the tiny pillars of clay that hold up the internet.

To be fair, it was unreasonable to expect Prolog coders to keep up with crypto advancements, I mean the language pre-dates SSL by decades.

Care to expand on what Prolog coders have to do with OpenSSL? Not getting the context here.

A joke about "developers whose main language starts with a "p"", meaning presumably perl, php and python. I guess in this context, ruby and JavaScript are also languages starting with "p".

Don't worry, I told both of them what was going on ;)

Pascal does predate the era of SSL by some margin to be fair.

Yeah, those Perl hackers are really out of touch :-)