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ZPE Programming Environment
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<p>ZPE Programming Environment (or simply ZPE), formerly the Zenith Parsing Engine, is a general-purpose <a href="/facts/Compiler/WNfCDFJe">compiler</a>, <a href="/facts/Parser/nRKB01S3">parser</a> and <a href="/facts/Runtime_system/YmCuC4xP">runtime environment</a> for the YASS programming language designed for educational use as well as for its general use. The language it interprets, YASS, is an <a href="/facts/Interpreted_language/JB85fbyb">interpreted</a>, <a href="/facts/High-level_programming_language/smjECUhx">high-level</a>, <a href="/facts/General-purpose_programming_language/LyA5zR3M">general-purpose</a> <a href="/facts/Programming_language/cWTYbgWa">programming language</a>. YASS is largely built upon making the language easy to read and use, with optional support for syntaxes such as <a href="/facts/List_of_programming_languages_by_type/XuWNoawk">curly-bracket syntax</a>. YASS supports <a href="/facts/Dynamic_typing/Tz0bAMS9">dynamic typing</a> or <a href="/facts/Static_typing/Tz0bAMS9">static typing</a>, as well as <a href="/facts/Strong_typing/WYexudnr">strong typing</a> and <a href="/facts/Weak_typing/WYexudnr">weak typing</a>. </p><p>It was started in May 2015 as a planned university project but was later changed to be a replacement for another programming language developing at the time known as BlackRabbit Script, also built by Jamie Balfour. ZPE and YASS were designed to help with the automation of scripts by clearing up the inconsistent syntaxes of other scripting languages. The Zenith Parsing Engine (formerly ZenithParser) powers the underlying parsers, including the <a href="/facts/Comma-separated_values/dv1pSR1r">CSV</a>, <a href="/facts/INI_file/3QR1Etqo">INI</a>, <a href="/facts/JSON/bs1rUAhd">JSON</a>, <a href="/facts/TOML/5U9ncUX6">TOML</a> and <a href="/facts/XML/clNgUfWk">XML</a> parsers. </p><p>The ZPE Programming Environment is written in Java, making it <a href="/facts/Cross-platform/16zqdvNR">cross-platform</a>. As a side effect, specific plugins and built-in objects are entirely written in Java. </p><p>Whilst ZPE is <a href="/facts/Closed_source/9zcskxYL">closed source</a>, all plugins, transpilers and additional tools are <a href="/facts/Open-source/7X9rCdz4">open-source</a>. The Standard Algorithms library is also open-source and available on Balfour's GitHub page. </p>