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Re: General purpose quantum computing closer to reality with Microsoft breakthroughs

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Post by martinquantum » Mon, Sep 25, 2017, 9:40 PM UTC

manuelelucchi wrote: post #9

What about the quantum programming language? Q#? The extension is .qb so i think not... What do you think?

when you look at the example, there was also a teleport.g.cs file which looks like a standard #C file, but possibly auto-generated(?) What do you think?

Re: General purpose quantum computing closer to reality with Microsoft breakthroughs

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Post by axonic » Tue, Sep 26, 2017, 3:38 AM UTC

manuelelucchi wrote: post #9

What about the quantum programming language? Q#? The extension is .qb so i think not... What do you think?

Uh oh, here comes Quantum Basic.

Re: General purpose quantum computing closer to reality with Microsoft breakthroughs

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Post by lostmsu » Tue, Sep 26, 2017, 3:53 AM UTC

Here, saved you time on reading 3 pages of bloat.

> A new programming language that is designed for developers to create apps to debug on quantum simulators today and run on an actual topological quantum computer in the future.

Re: General purpose quantum computing closer to reality with Microsoft breakthroughs

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Post by jongalloway2 » Tue, Sep 26, 2017, 5:11 AM UTC

martinquantum wrote: post #10

manuelelucchi wrote: post #9

What about the quantum programming language? Q#? The extension is .qb so i think not... What do you think?

The sample they showed did not look like any of the standard .NET languages, so I wonder if they are going with a standalone language. AFAIK most quantum programming languages are actually embedded into another language (C, Haskell, ML) so if they actually implemented a standalone language, that would be interesting. Not sure what the file extension means.

It looks like it was related to Liquid. Info here: http://stationq.github.io/Liquid/

That specific code sample looks like it was based on the Teleport sample: https://github.com/StationQ/Liquid/blob/master/Samples/Telep...