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Quantum programming is an emerging area developed in last 2 decades from the multidisciplinary research on quantum computing. Quantum computing combines the idea of Quantum Mechanics, Mathematics and Computer Science. This survey paper briefly gives an overview of state of the art in the field of quantum programming languages. This paper focuses on actual high-level quantum programming languages for quantum computers, their features and comparisons. We had not considered any available simulator in this paper.

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Garhwal, S., Ghorani, M. & Ahmad, A. Quantum Programming Language: A Systematic Review of Research Topic and Top Cited Languages. Arch Computat Methods Eng 28, 289–310 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11831-019-09372-6

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