QCL - A Programming Language for Quantum Computers

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by jonbaer • 13 years ago

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freyrs3• 13 years ago

See also Quipper language, which is a DSL on top of Haskell for quantum programming. [1]

[1] http://www.mscs.dal.ca/~selinger/quipper/

omershapira2• 13 years ago

If Heroku don't got it, I don't learn it.

krapp• 13 years ago

That seems a bit self-limiting.

MostAwesomeDude• 13 years ago

I hope that you did not flip this around and force yourself to learn PHP and JS based on this philosophy.

tekromancr2• 13 years ago

Hey, come on. PHP and JS fit a niche. Just like the platypus. Remarkably stupid animal, but it exists because it fit a niche that no other animal did.

omershapira2• 13 years ago

Damnit, that's what you get for forgetting the unicode for irony punctuation

jonbaer• 13 years ago

I think the main question is what other systems there are out there besides D-Wave which (afaik) is mainly Python-based. http://www.dwavesys.com/en/dev-tutorial-tsp.html ie: would the larger picture be a D-Wave based "AWS-like" system that accepts to run these different languages?

archgoon• 13 years ago

DWave's Adiabatic Quantum Annealer does not run python. It is not Turing Complete. The python component is used to manually generate a matrix that corresponds to a travelling salesman problem. QCL (and Quibble) are languages designed to describe quantum programs that would actually run on a qunatum computer. What DWaves python module does is more akin to writing OpenCL code in a string and passing that to the OpenCL runtime to be compiled.

garraeth• 13 years ago

I've been watching this series for a general introduction into the math behind quantum computing, and would recommend it: "Quantum computing for the determined" by Michael Nielsen

http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL1826E60FD05B44E4

mitchi• 13 years ago

How long do we realistically have to wait before John Carmack rewrites Wolfenstein 3D in this?

yelnatz• 13 years ago

Is Java/C++/etc the punch cards of our generation? Should we start learning this to keep up?

gizmo686• 13 years ago

Quantom computers aren't replacing classical ones in the foreseeable future. At best, they will be simmilar to GPUs (and even that is a stretch).

adamlj• 13 years ago

At least this is true right now but the above could easily turn out to be one of those "None will ever use more than X bytes of ram" quotes.

pyre• 13 years ago

My understanding is that (at least right now) most Quantum Computers are equivalent to ASICs; they are custom-designed to solve specific problems, or problem domains.

greenmountin• 13 years ago

The current version of QCL is 0.6.3 (Dec 14 2006):

In reality, programming quantum computers is still complicated by the changing hardware. Think about it, if your goal is to do something cool with 1 or 2 bits, it doesn't make sense to build a grand architecture which will let you factor 2^25-1. In fact, when I see grad students / postdocs / professors talking about this, it's a big warning sign.

If you're interested in what could be done in the field, I would start by taking a look at QuTIP (https://code.google.com/p/qutip/), learning LabVIEW (It's effective, useful, and everywhere), or maybe becoming a topnotch Verilog coder. FPGA's are the future of QC.

QCL - A Programming Language for Quantum Computers

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