Easy Programming Language

Easy Programming Language
Paradigm	Multi-paradigm: compiled, imperative, procedural, object-oriented, functional
Designed by	The Easy Programming Language Company
First appeared	2004
Stable release	5.95 / September 4, 2023; 20 months ago
OS	Cross-platform
License	Proprietary software
Filename extensions	.e, .ec
Website	epl.eyuyan.com
Major implementations
	E Programming Language
Dialects
	EF

Easy Programming Language (EPL, Chinese: 易语言) is a visual compiled multilingual^[1] proprietary programming language.^[2] EPL is somewhat popular in China because it features a full Chinese environment. The language has traditional Chinese, simplified Chinese, English and Japanese variants. The language has been shown to improve coding productivity for programmers who are not as fluent in English, albeit with less runtime efficiency.^[3]^[4]

In addition, it is cross-platform, as it currently supports both Microsoft Windows and Linux. It is object-oriented and structured.^[5]

Features

The program defines modules in a tabular format.^[6]

Easy modules (Chinese: 易模块) are pre-compiled modules with the ".ec" extension name.^[2]

Below is a "Hello, World!" program, in simplified Chinese:

调试输出("Hello, world!")

^ Official description
^ ^a ^b Dong, Xiaolei 董小雷; Liu, Zhifang 刘志芳 (2007). "易语言中模块的使用研究" [Research on the use of modules in Easy Programming Language]. 唐山师范学院学报 [Journal of Tangshan Normal University] (in Chinese) (5): 95–97. Archived from the original on 2024-08-02. Retrieved 2024-08-02 – via Zhangqiao Keyan 掌桥科研.
^ Dong, Xiaolei 董小雷; Liu, Zhifang 刘志芳 (2007). "易语言的使用与研究" [The use and research of Yi language]. 唐山师范学院学报 [Journal of Tangshan Normal University] (in Chinese). No. 2. pp. 71–73. Archived from the original on 2024-08-02. Retrieved 2024-08-02 – via Zhangqiao Keyan 掌桥科研.
^ Huang, Jiacheng 黄嘉诚 (2022). "中英文可视化编程的对比研究" [A comparative study of Chinese and English visual programming]. 电大理工 [Science Engineering] (in Chinese) (2): 72–78. Archived from the original on 2024-08-02. Retrieved 2024-08-02 – via Zhangqiao Keyan 掌桥科研.
^ Also in the official description
^ 张, 骞 (2015). "基于易语言的大学计算机编程课程改革研究". 中小企业管理与科技(下旬刊) (in Chinese) (4). CNKI: 272–273. ISSN 1673-1069.