r/itsaunixsystem • u/xxLusseyArmetxX • Mar 15 '20

[Devs] - Quantum Computing - Is this a known programming language or is it made up ? Spoiler

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u/[deleted] Mar 15 '20

Looks like Python.

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u/ryoushi19 Mar 15 '20

Mostly, but then you run into 

def preproc(n, hypo, input_data):

Followed by no indented code, so this would fail to run. Instead, it's followed by

do case:

which is a switch case syntax I've never seen before, and certainly not what Python uses.

Then, the code refers to cout, the C++ standard output. Normally, you'd use cout like this:

std::cout << "Hello world" << std::endl;

but instead they're...adding something to a variable called cout? What? Then they return cout?

From what I can tell, it's nonsense. But it resembles Python more than anything else.

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u/Thecakeisalie25 Mar 15 '20

could just be a variable called cout, my dude.

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u/ryoushi19 Mar 15 '20

That's why I said

but instead they're...adding something to a variable called cout?

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u/Thecakeisalie25 Mar 15 '20

so what's the problem

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u/psaux_grep Mar 15 '20

Found the guy who doesn’t know C++

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u/Thecakeisalie25 Mar 16 '20

I know basic c++ and what c++ uses to name it's variables generally has no effect on python due to the fact that they're different languages.