Microsoft Develops New Programming Language For Quantum Computers

[Lucian Armasu]

Microsoft announced at the Ignite conference that it's developing a programming language for quantum computers. The language will be previewed by the end of the year.

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[WyomingKnott]

New datatypes include the quantbool with True, False, and Maybe values, and int and floating values with a normal distribution specified by mean and standard deviation. Other distributions are expected.

New statements include the for-a-while loop. Classical logic can be implemented with the @incoherently decorator.

 

[EastOfEden]

Maybe ( Print ("HELLO WORLD") );

 

[Colin_10]

With decades of entrenchment of classical programming techniques it will be interesting to see how fast developers can learn new tools that will likely be very different from what they use now.

 

[hoofhearted]

What about qcl. Shor and grover:
http://tph.tuwien.ac.at/~oemer/doc/quprog/node32.html
http://tph.tuwien.ac.at/~oemer/doc/quprog/node17.html

 

[falchard]

WhenYouGetToIt(ThrowOutTheTrash());

 

[WyomingKnott]

WhenYouGetToIt(ThrowOutTheTrash());

Futures have been around for a while already.