Surely you can replace "C++" with any other language and it'd still be true? I look at the colossal ancient Delphi codebase that my old employer had as a great

Surely you can replace "C++" with any other language and it'd still be true? I look at the colossal ancient Delphi codebase that my old employer had as a great example. Or the Magento system in PHP as another example. Or all the Objective C in the world that won't work on modern macos or iOS/iPadOS as another example.