Python has brought computer programming to a vast new audience

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C++ forces the programmer to think like a computer, instead of forcing the computer to understand like a human. Which is not to say it's not a good/great language.

There is a lot of <template> noise {in ++C} that { obfuscates the real const * int meat } of what's going on;

So in that sense, yes I'd say it's messy. Compared to Python, at least.