Microsoft Develops New Programming Language For Quantum Computers (cio-today.com)

Microsoft's newest programming language will run on yet-to-be developed quantum computers. An anonymous reader quotes CIO Today: Microsoft said its new quantum computing language, which has yet to be named, is "deeply integrated" into its Visual Basic development environment and does many of the things other standard programming languages do. However, it is specifically designed to allow programmers to create apps that will eventually run on true quantum computers... Like other companies, such as Google and IBM, Microsoft has been working for years to advance quantum computing research to the point where the technology becomes feasible rather than theoretical... Joining Satya Nadella on stage, Fields Medal-winning mathematician Michael Freedman added, "Microsoft's qubit will be based on a new form of matter called topological matter that also has this property that as the information stored in the matter is stored globally, you can't find the information in any particular place..." The programming language is expected to be available as a free preview by the end of the year and "also includes libraries and tutorials so developers can familiarize themselves with quantum computing," Microsoft said.

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Lame website is lame

[Katatsumuri]

They simply misspelled "Visual Studio". https://cloudblogs.microsoft.c...

Visual Studio, not Visual Basic

[gtarthur]

Once again /. falls victim to a reference to a technical article written by a clueless tech writer. The MS announcement clearly states deep integration with Visual Studio, which any developer or even casual technical person would know makes much more sense. However, as another poster pointed out, those of us that care about this kind of stuff already know about it about 3-7 days before it shows up here.

Re:neat

[140Mandak262Jamuna]

I agree with you Windows is stable.

But still I am angry at all the other indignities heaped on me all these years. So I will perpetuate the meme that Windows is an unstable piece of crap as long as possible.

That jerks who decided to violate the then accepted norms of not using white spaces in path names just so that he can laugh and giggle at the unix descendants who have to fix all the scripts, this is for them.

The jerks who decided to withdraw support for command line builds in visual studio and broke all our Imakefile\s and Makefile\s in windows, it is for them. It happened in visual studio 2 I think. They restored it in version 4. I have a long memory. And I will not forgive. Our entire company had to reorganize the entire build process due that dick move. We could not get a clean simple build working in MS and linux for ages.

No, they deserve no sympathy. They deserve no fair treatment.

We had a clean abstract layer that ran above X windows and MFC. Link with motiflib.a in hp-ux, iris, dec-alpha, and solaris. Link with mfclib.lib in windows. They broke it up, made us use that infernal thing called Mainwin, and they ditched Mainwin.

Microsoft does not deserve any sympathy, any fair treatment. They deserve to be pilloried at every available opportunity.