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QML: A Functional Quantum Programming Language written in Haskell

52 points by e19293001 10y ago

JustSomeNobody 10y ago
I'm sorry, but there's already a QML. Can you pick a new name?
- codezero 10y ago
  I really wish the HN community could stop making the first comments on something about the name of the thing. This says nothing about the content of the project and distracts heavily from discussing it. Namespaces have always and will always overlap. It's really not hard to coexist and still be productive.
  - Etzos 10y ago
    I agree that many times conversation here gets sidelined by the distraction of complaints about a project's name. Usually because a piece of software has a name used by another older piece of software or a program or something of that nature. However in this case I think it's at least somewhat useful as both are basically programming languages and the Qt Project's QML is already in widespread use. Choosing such a name is bound to create confusion if only for the large overlap of the domains. Edit: Although I see that the papers referenced are from 2005 which predates the Qt Project's QML. It is still an unfortunately named language.
  - dopamean 10y ago
    I just downvote and move on.
    - codezero 10y ago
      I used to, but a strong way to change an undesirable behavior is to model the desired one, or at least establish that the undesirable one has no substance.
- hellofunk 10y ago
  Agreed. I thought this was a Qt project.
- infodroid 10y ago
  This work is circa 2004-2008 and predates QT's QML.
- paulddraper 10y ago
  Why the hell should the authors rename their stuff just because Qt came along an named something QML years after this project?
tfgg 10y ago
Weird coincidence, but I remember someone at Cambridge (Christian Steinruecken, http://www.siski.de/~chris/ http://www.siski.de/~chris/) did his undergraduate dissertation on a Quantum ML. Sadly all the links I can find to it are dead now :(
shepardrtc 10y ago
Perhaps there should be a [2008] in the title? It doesn't look to have been updated since then. Still very interesting, though.
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52 points by e19293001 10y ago

JustSomeNobody 10y ago

I'm sorry, but there's already a QML. Can you pick a new name?

codezero 10y ago
I really wish the HN community could stop making the first comments on something about the name of the thing. This says nothing about the content of the project and distracts heavily from discussing it. Namespaces have always and will always overlap. It's really not hard to coexist and still be productive.
- Etzos 10y ago
  I agree that many times conversation here gets sidelined by the distraction of complaints about a project's name. Usually because a piece of software has a name used by another older piece of software or a program or something of that nature. However in this case I think it's at least somewhat useful as both are basically programming languages and the Qt Project's QML is already in widespread use. Choosing such a name is bound to create confusion if only for the large overlap of the domains. Edit: Although I see that the papers referenced are from 2005 which predates the Qt Project's QML. It is still an unfortunately named language.
- dopamean 10y ago
  I just downvote and move on.
  - codezero 10y ago
    I used to, but a strong way to change an undesirable behavior is to model the desired one, or at least establish that the undesirable one has no substance.
hellofunk 10y ago
Agreed. I thought this was a Qt project.
infodroid 10y ago
This work is circa 2004-2008 and predates QT's QML.
paulddraper 10y ago
Why the hell should the authors rename their stuff just because Qt came along an named something QML years after this project?

tfgg 10y ago

Weird coincidence, but I remember someone at Cambridge (Christian Steinruecken, http://www.siski.de/~chris/ http://www.siski.de/~chris/) did his undergraduate dissertation on a Quantum ML. Sadly all the links I can find to it are dead now :(

shepardrtc 10y ago

Perhaps there should be a [2008] in the title? It doesn't look to have been updated since then. Still very interesting, though.

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