QCL, or Quantum Computing Language, is arguably one  of the first programming languages for quantum computing created in 1998. It is still being  updated now as of 2022. 

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"Despite many common concepts with classical computer science, quantum computing is still widely considered as a special discipline within the broad field of theoretical physics. One reason for the slow adoption of QC by the computer science community is the confusing variety of formalisms (Dirac notation, matrices, gates, operators, etc.), none of which has any similarity with classical programming languages, as well as the rather  physical terminology in most of the available literature.

QCL (Quantum Computation Language) tries to fill this gap: QCL is a high level, architecture independent programming language for quantum computers, with a syntax derived from classical procedural languages like C or Pascal. This allows for the complete implementation and simulation of quantum algorithms (including classical components) in one consistent formalism.""

-- from the QCL [website](http://www.itp.tuwien.ac.at/~oemer/qcl.html)

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