Darwin is an Architecture Description Language (ADL). It can be used in a software engineering context to describe the organization of a piece of software in terms of components, their interfaces, and the bindings between components. In comparison to others ADLs, such as Wright, the language does not provide the notion of connectors as a first-class concept. The FSP language can be used to describe the behaviour modelling, and LTSA can be used for analysis. The idea is to include the FSP code in the Darwin code like this:
Its use of FSP language allow the verification of the temporal properties of the architecture.
It was developed at Imperial College London.
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“Natural selection, the blind, unconscious, automatic process which Darwin discovered, and which we now know is the explanation for the existence and apparently purposeful form of all life, has no purpose in mind. It has no mind and no mind’s eye. It does not plan for the future. It has no vision, no foresight, no sight at all. If it can be said to play the role of the watchmaker in nature, it is the blind watchmaker.”
—Richard Dawkins (b. 1941)