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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."

11 of 232 comments (clear)

  1. No, Really! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    It's NOT funny anymore!

    STOP laughing!

  2. WHEN THE SMACK BEGINS TO FLOW by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    i really don't care anymore
    about all the jim-jims in this town
    and all the politicians making busy sounds
    and everybody putting everybody else down
    and all the dead bodies piled up in mounds

  3. wee by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    hi i r anonymous coward ^__^

  4. qubits? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    What does q-bert have to do with quantum computing? stoopid little alien.

  5. Is there some missing next button� by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    ...that opera 7 isn't rendering, or is this article totally useless?

  6. You mean DEATH TO THE US by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    America is large, south america, north america.
    They don't event own all of the north.

  7. Applause by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Take it easy.

  8. FP by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    First Post

  9. Your Mom Sucks by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    So does your mom. That's all I got to say about that.

  10. HALT, SCHUTZSTAFFEL! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    uhh... no text, i just always wanted to say that

  11. Re:AND I FEEL JUST LIKE JESUS SON by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Then thank God that I'm as good as dead Then thank your God that I'm not aware And thank God that I just don't care And I guess I just don't know And I guess I just don't know