'''ZPL''' (short for ''Z-level Programming Language'')' is an [[array programming language]] designed to replace C and C++ programming languages in engineering and scientific applications.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.cs.washington.edu/research/zpl/overview/overview.html|access-date=17 December 2012|title=ZPL Home Page|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130115204553/http://www.cs.washington.edu/research/zpl/overview/overview.html|archive-date=15 January 2013}}</ref> Because its design goal was to obtain [[cross-platform]] high performance, ZPL programs run fast on both [[sequence|sequential]] and [[parallel computer]]s. 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]].
