Darwin is an architecture description language (ADL). It can be used in a

software engineering Software engineering is a branch of both computer science and engineering focused on designing, developing, testing, and maintaining Application software, software applications. It involves applying engineering design process, engineering principl ...

context to describe the organisation of a piece of software in terms of components, their interfaces and the bindings between components.

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Component Object Model Component Object Model (COM) is a binary-interface technology for software components from Microsoft that enables using objects in a language-neutral way between different programming languages, programming contexts, processes and machines ...

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