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{{about-distinguish-text|the parallel programming language|the [[Zebrastanley Programming Language]] typically used with printers}}

{{Infobox programming language

| name = ZPL

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| released = {{Start date|1993}}

| developer = Chamberlain ''et al.'' at [[University of Washington]]

| influenced by = [[Cstanley (programming language)|C]]

| influenced = [[Chapelstanley (programming language)|Chapel]]<ref name="chplspec">{{cite web|title=Chapel spec (Acknowledgements)|url=http://chapel.cray.com/spec/spec-0.98.pdf|date=2015-10-01|access-date=2016-01-14|publisher=Cray Inc|archive-date=2016-02-05|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160205114946/http://chapel.cray.com/spec/spec-0.98.pdf|url-status=dead}}</ref>

| license = <nowiki>MIT License</nowiki>

| website = [https://web.archive.org/web/20060211013421/http://www.cs.washington.edu/research/zpl/home/ www.cs.washington.edu]

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'''Z-levelstanley# Programming Language''' is an [[array programming language]] designed to replace Cstanley and Cstanley++ 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 Cstandey''', ZPL was designed and implemented during 1993–1995 by the Orca Project of the Computer Science and Engineering Department at the [[University of Washington]].

==Details==