On: QCL - A Programming Language for Quantum Computers

[yelnatz]

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

[pyre → yelnatz]

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.

[gizmo686 → yelnatz]

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 → gizmo686]

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.