Z-level programming language
| ZPL | |
|---|---|
| Paradigm | Array |
| Developer | Chamberlain et al. at University of Washington |
| First appeared | 1993 |
| License | MIT License |
| Website | www.cs.washington.edu |
| Influenced by | |
| C | |
| Influenced | |
| Chapel | |
Z-level Programming Language is an array programming language designed to replace C and C++ programming languages in engineering and scientific applications. Because its design goal was to obtain cross-platform high performance, ZPL programs run fast on both sequential and parallel computers. Highly-parallel ZPL programs are simple and easy to write because it exclusively uses implicit parallelism.
Originally called Orca C, ZPL was designed and implemented during 1993–1995 by the Orca Project of the Computer Science and Engineering Department at the University of Washington.