Re: COMP: Reliable Quantum Computing Demonstrated

From: Mike Linksvayer (ml@gondwanaland.com)
Date: Tue Sep 08 1998 - 23:38:15 MDT


On Tue, Sep 08, 1998 at 02:11:05PM -0400, Doug Bailey wrote:
> http://www.lanl.gov/projects/PA/News/090898.html#anchor263034

Coincidentally I just saw an announcement for a quantum computation
language. See <http://tph.tuwien.ac.at/~oemer/qc/>. From the README:

    Despite many common concepts with classical computer science,
    quantum computing is still widely considered as a special
    discipline within the broad field of theoretical physics. One
    reason for the slow adoption of QC by the computer science
    community is the confusing variety of formalisms (Dirac notation,
    matrices, gates, operators, etc.), none of which has any
    similarity with classical programming languages, as well as
    the rather ``physical'' terminology in most of the available
    literature.

    QCL (Quantum Computation Language) tries to fill this gap: QCL
    is a hight level, architecture independent programming language
    for quantum computers, with a syntax derived from classical
    procedural languages like C or Pascal. This allows for the
    complete implementation and simulation of quantum algorithms
    (including classical components) in one consistent formalism.

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