As for understandability, I used to work with a lot of EE people building various equipment that required both hardware/software. Everybody was smart, but not n

As for understandability, I used to work with a lot of EE people building various equipment that required both hardware/software. Everybody was smart, but not necessarily an expert in programming. We also used various programming languages. The rule was keep all code at an "8th grade level" and write everything like C. Everybody regardless of language background can read C. C has become the universal pseudo-code. Nobody agrees on what "properly written C++" is. A colleague with a C++98 background told me C++11 looks like a completely foreign language to him.