From: Michael M. Butler (mmb@spies.com)
Date: Fri Apr 04 2003 - 11:19:40 MST
> DREAM CODE
>
> Programming languages for quantum computers are now being written
>
> http://www.economist.com/printedition/displayStory.cfm?Story_ID=1682086
...snippage...
> But researchers are already trying to work out
> how to write programs for these almost non-existent devices, in the
> belief that learning how to do so might help engineers to design the
> computers in useful ways. A paper by Stefano Bettelli of Paul Sabatier
> University in Toulouse, France, and his colleagues, which has just been
> accepted by the EUROPEAN PHYSICAL JOURNAL, describes the latest effort
> to come up with a quantum programming language.
...snippage...
> Because a
> working quantum computer is likely to be a specialised portion of a
> larger classical computer, any successful language will have to be able
> to handle registers and operators in ways that allow them to be
> integrated with old-fashioned classical computations. Representing a
> unitary transformation as an object makes it fairly simple to translate
> programming directives at the classical level into physical control
> instructions at the quantum level. Dr Bettelli's language should do
> this.
...snippage...
> Although programming languages may change a great
> deal before usable quantum computers can be built, it is worth
> constructing the theoretical underpinnings now.
-- I am not here to have an argument. I am here as part of a civilization. Sometimes I forget.
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