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Quantum Computing Programming Language

Posted by timothy on from the boy-scout-motto dept.

William Walker writes "The Economist has an article in its new issue describing attempts to write a programming language for quantum computers, if and when they appear. It does a good job of putting the challenges of qubits versus regular bits into layman's terms. ... The original paper is here."

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  1. for those who cant wait by RidRash · · Score: 3, Informative

    http://tph.tuwien.ac.at/~oemer/qcl.html

  2. Quantum Computing Language exists. by zCyl · · Score: 2, Informative

    Let's not forget QCL (Quantum Computing Language) developed by Bernhard Oemer (a slashdotter) in 1998.

  3. Programming Language Already Exists by wildmage · · Score: 2, Informative

    A programming language already exists. It's called QCL by Bernhard Oemer.

    It also includes an emulator with 64 qubits. Pretty neat.

    He also wrote some very useful papers on understanding quantum computing.

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  4. Re:Serious question: Quantum computing resources by DamnYouIAmALion · · Score: 2, Informative

    I found this article to be a very useful. A nice starting block.

  5. Re:Seen Quantum::Superpositions by Fastolfe · · Score: 2, Informative

    It's meant to be more of a novelty than a practical example of quantum computing. There's also a Quantum::Entanglement module, allowing you to put variables in a superposition of states, do some calculations on them, and then "observe" the value of the result. The observation then causes the states of all of the other variables along the way to instantly resolve into states consistent with that observation.