The first release of my Quantum Artificial Life simulator—the Quantum Coreworld—can be found here. Please visit! The subject is a word-play on the articles: "In the game called Core War hostile programs engage in a battle of bits" by A.K. Dewdney LJ:REF_SCIAM:554 and "The Coreworld: Emergence and Evolution of Cooperative Structures in a Computational Chemistry" by S. Rasmussen et al LJ:REF_ALIFE:749.

A challenge: test94qop.red (see link above) is a trivial example of using quantum operations to hide a secret. Programs that cannot use quantum operations see a random string. I have a few ideas about how to use this effectively but if you know Redcode or enjoy assembly programming you might want to try it yourself. Successful—and not so successful—attempts will be posted on this page. Details to be worked out.

Happy New Year!