Instructions written in a programming language. Source code is the text that a programmer writes, but it is not directly executable by the computer. Source code must be converted into machine ...

Quantum Machines has released a new quantum coding language called QUA. Since quantum computers are an entirely new kind of hardware, it's time for an entirely new kind of code.

For example, 20 lines of code in Java might easily require 200 lines of code in assembly language. In addition, measuring lines of code says absolutely nothing about code quality.