Darwin (programming language) explained

Darwin (programming language) should not be confused with Darwin (programming game).

File Ext:	.drw
Released:	1991
Influenced By:	Maple

Darwin is a closed source^[1] programming language developed by Gaston Gonnet and colleagues at ETH Zurich.^[2] It is used to develop the OMA orthology inference software,^[3] which was also initially developed by Gonnet.^[4] The language backend consists of the kernel, responsible for performing simple mathematical calculations, for transporting and storing data and for interpreting the user's commands, and the library, a set of programs which can perform more complicated calculations.^[5] The target audience for the language is the biosciences, so the library consisted of routines such as those to compute pairwise alignments, phylogenetic trees, multiple sequence alignments, and to make secondary structure predictions.

Example Code

One would write the Hello World program as:

printf('Hello, world!\n');

The following procedure calculates the factorial of a number:factorial := proc (n) if (n=0) then return(1); else return(n * factorial(n-1)); fi;end:

See also

• List of programming languages

Notes and References

1. Darwin v2.0: an interpreted computer language for the biosciences . 2000 . 10.1093/bioinformatics/16.2.101 . 1531041 . Gonnet . G. H. . Hallett . M. T. . Korostensky . C. . Bernardin . L. . Bioinformatics . 16 . 2 . 101–103 . 10842729 . free . 20.500.11850/422531 . free .
2. Web site: Personal page of Gaston Gonnet . 2017-11-10.
3. Web site: OMA Standalone . 2017-11-10.
4. Web site: OMA: web-based database interface for orthology prediction . 2017-11-10.
5. Web site: The Darwin Manual . 2017-11-10.