Satoshi's coding quality

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Satoshi's coding quality

I have little knowledge about C++, so I want to ask two questions from "expert" (C++) programmers here:

1. Why Satoshi wrote Bitcoin in C++ and not in (for example) C language? any technical reasons? OOP? just a personal choice?

   
   



2. How good is the quality of original Satoshi Bitcoin source code? I saw some opposite viewpoints about this topic on the internet; some say that it is like an academic code with low quality, some say that it is a code written by old pre-2000 C++ standard, some say it is a very secure code with high quality, and...

   
   

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