From: "Dmitry A. Kazakov" <mailbox@dmitry-kazakov.de>
Subject: Re: Quantum computing
Date: Mon, 7 Mar 2011 09:31:10 +0100
Date: 2011-03-07T09:31:11+01:00 [thread overview]
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On Sun, 6 Mar 2011 17:20:28 -0800 (PST), Hoïżœng ïżœïżœnh Long wrote:
> What will the future of Ada be in quantum world? Just a random thought
> in my mind.
It is difficult to say. Modern language are not well suited for non-crisp
(uncertain) computations and conversely. There are many aspects of dealing
with uncertainty which are quite different in handling from the techniques
we know. In any case, it should be a substantial shift towards declarative
approaches, which in turn will cause immense problems. Another important
issue is the balance between computations and data. As we know from the
past shift of this balance has a massive influence on the ways of
programming. Quantum computations seem to shift the balance back to more
expensive memory and less expensive (to some extent free?) computations.
It is also interesting to see if quantum computations will replace digital
computers [and not yet existing molecular ones]. In the past analogue
computers were eradicated by the digital ones. Will the history repeat
itself?
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Regards,
Dmitry A. Kazakov
http://www.dmitry-kazakov.de
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2011-03-07 1:20 Quantum computing Hoàng Đình Long
2011-03-07 6:04 ` Shark8
2011-03-07 7:37 ` Maciej Sobczak
2011-03-07 8:31 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov [this message]
2011-03-07 8:43 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2011-03-27 23:56 ` Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57)
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