C makes it easy to shoot yourself in the foot; C++ makes it harder, but when you do it blows your whole leg off. - Bjarne Stroustrup

I'm convinced that you could design a language about a tenth of the size of C++ (whichever way you measure size) providing roughly what C++ does.

"Legacy code" is a term often used derogatorily to characterize code that is written in a language or style that (1) the speaker/writer consider outdated and/or (2) is competing with something sold/promoted by the speaker/writer. "Legacy code" often differs from its suggested alternative by actually working and scaling.

There are only two kinds of languages: the ones people complain about and the ones nobody uses.