The $1T didn't go to the programmers. The places are inherently body shops. Domain knowledge is the purview of "systems engineers" or "architects". Hilarity ens

The $1T didn't go to the programmers. The places are inherently body shops. Domain knowledge is the purview of "systems engineers" or "architects". Hilarity ensues. The use of C++ is a (non)reaction to the explosion of pet language systems. It got coded into whatever documentation was in process at the time, and probably cannot be changed.