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They're not the only QC company using Common Lisp ;-)

• dunefox 5y ago
  Does CL lend itself uniquely to QC?
  • mikewave 5y ago
    I think that a lot of physicists who are now in their 40s+ learned and used Lisp in university, and have simply found ways to keep using it since then. For new hires, the fact is, a quantum computing codebase is daunting to learn regardless of the language. Therefore, apprenticing someone on a new language at the same time as everything else they are learning is not really the same relative burden that it would be if, say, the application was a plain boring database CRUD app in an unfamiliar language. We definitely make excellent use of macros and DSLs and the REPL in many ways. I wish I could talk about it more, but alas.