In our work developing and understanding these near term applications we’ve developed a framework to help us work with the algorithms concretely. Today the Software and Applications team at Rigetti is excited to share the description of this work in our whitepaper [A Practical Quantum Instruction Set Architecture]. We have focused on a simple model that is compatible with the types of devices that are likely to be available first.
via https://medium.com/@rigetticomputing/introducing-quil-a-practical-quantum-instruction-set-architecture-a684f0590a0c