I worked with a guy in the early 1990's that wrote a chipset simulator for evaluating IO/RAM tuning in C++. He was extremely verbose, which was nice to a point:

I worked with a guy in the early 1990's that wrote a chipset simulator for evaluating IO/RAM tuning in C++. He was extremely verbose, which was nice to a point: he exceeded the Turbo C++ limit for 256-character max variable names. Needless to say his code did not print nicely into 80 columns.