Funny, I read "old school" as a kinder euphemism for shoddy (with all due respect to Sid's brilliance as a designer and hacker). Sometimes great people write cr

Funny, I read "old school" as a kinder euphemism for shoddy (with all due respect to Sid's brilliance as a designer and hacker). Sometimes great people write crap, unmaintainable code. I've known several types like this in the industries I've worked in. You need a small army of programmers who can respect coding standards to clean up after them. As for C++, I've looked at some of the Civ 4 source and it seems fairly industry standard "game style" C++. It uses templates, but not heavily, and some boost to provide Python scripting.