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'''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|accessdate=17 December 2012|title=ZPL Home Page}}{{dead|datedeadurl=Novemberyes|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20130115204553/http://www.cs.washington.edu/research/zpl/overview/overview.html|archivedate=15 2017January 2013|df=}}</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]].