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Interestingly Martin Sustrik, one of the original ZeroMQ authors, expressed regret for having chosen C++ for ZeroMQ.

And as some of the comments on his blog point out, he uses C++ in a C style.

"If you insist on sticking to a conventional C style of C++ code, you’ll get conventional C-style problems" - Bjarne Stroustrup (http://www.informit.com/articles/article.aspx?p=2080042)