ZPE Programming Environment

A scripting environment that makes it easier to learn to code

Section I

What is ZPE Programming Environment?

What is ZPE?

The ZPE Programming Environment, often just known as the ZPE, is a fully fledged language parser that features a concise programming syntax that produces powerful programs.

ZPE's Three Goals

Easy to learn with an easy to read syntax
Small, light and efficient
Quick to write

And...

ZPE also seeks to be clean and concise, as well as well-documented

To date, all of these aims have been achieved in each release

And...

ZPE also seeks to be clean and concise, as well as well-documented

To date, all of these aims have been achieved in each release

Section II

Syntax

Built-in functionality

As of May 2022, there are 225+ predefined functions to make it easier to create powerful programs.

Example #1

function main()

  $i = 10
  print($i++)

end function

Example #2

for($i = 0, $i < 1000, 1)

  print(floor(++$i + 3.3))

end for

for($i = 0, $i < 1000, $i++)

  print(floor($i++ + 3.3))

end for

Example #3

when($i)
  is 1 do
    print("It is one.")
  is 2 do
    print("It is two.")
  otherwise do
    print("It is none of them.")
end when

Clean and Concise.

The Yet Another Simple Syntax (YASS) has been designed to be similar to that of existing programming languages such as Java, PHP, JavaScript, Python, C, VB.NET, C# and SML.

The syntax has taken the best of all languages.

Data types.

ZPE is dynamical and weakly typed, allowing variables to be easily reassigned to another value of a different type.

ZPE also allows you to force types on variables using the Typo typing system.

Section III

sPEED AND EFFICIENCY

Fast to run.

ZPE is considerably faster than BRS that it replaces, and compilation time is much lower than ever

Time to compile and run (less is better)

January 2019

January 2011

Fast to write.

Just as with BRS for .NET, the YASS syntax has been designed to be quick to write.

Things also read much easier as most of the syntax is designed to read like sentences.

Fifth Gear.

Shorthands and shortcuts help write the code quickly.

Several alternative function names exist, for instance, string_replace can be substituted by str_replace.

Section IV

Features of the YASS language

Functional.

YASS is designed for simplicity at the same time as functionality.

Easy to learn.

Like BRS, ZPE was designed to be an educational language. ZPE is also built well-enough to make it incredibly useful as a programming language for performing other tasks such as system tasks and the like.

Section V

To finish

A clean focus and direction.

The future of ZPE focuses on efficient designs - reusing what exists already to develop and expand the potential of ZPE.

The ZPE standard library utilises the code from the language itself to develop a library of very powerful functionalities.