While I am not even vaguely a fan of C++ (despite making my living writing it for at least 5 years back in the day) you can have readable multi-programmer code

While I am not even vaguely a fan of C++ (despite making my living writing it for at least 5 years back in the day) you can have readable multi-programmer code - look at webkit for example. Its a complex bit of functionality and there is a lot of it but I spend quite a bit of time knee deep in its code (for an internal project) and I find myself quite impressed with the quality. Ok - so one data point doesn't prove anything but it does show that it is perfectly possible to make good C++ projects. For me the thing that drives me up the wall is how much work I have to do in C++ compared to Python to do the same things - I guess some of that is having not used C++ for a long time. That and the fact I keep typing single quoted strings in C++ and semicolon line endings in Python.