And I have at some point inherited 5000+ files long legacy PHP code. I had to write Python program to parse that insanity to look for particular patterns and re

And I have at some point inherited 5000+ files long legacy PHP code. I had to write Python program to parse that insanity to look for particular patterns and report those for manual fixing or do it automatically if possible. The example would be database access. That single software used 5 different methods to access it. So no. I would not call C++ any special in this regards.