Darren's gemlog

Welcome to my Gemlog, where you can read intermittently about my adventures in programming languages.

My posts

2025

2025-11-21 - A Short i18n/l10n Example in Ada
2025-11-16 - POSIX from Ada
2025-11-06 - MOO News
2025-10-30 - Software Maintenance
2025-09-08 - Navigating the "ASE2" Website
2025-08-31 - Slightly Less Historic Ada Design
2025-06-13 - Historic Ada Design
2025-04-13 - Historic Ada Project Management
2025-04-10 - Ada
2025-01-27 - Domain-Specific Languages
2025-01-13 - A Tour of Old Languages

2024

2024-10-12 - Assembler, after a long time
2024-09-29 - Mir libraries on "BetterC" dialect of D
2024-09-16 - Configuring Autocrypt in Emacs/Gnus
2024-07-31 - Minor CLP Progress
2024-03-31 - Long-Term Trends
2024-03-29 - Old Books
2024-03-09 - FLENG Libraries & "Community"
2024-02-06 - FLENG as a "Plan B"

2023

2023-12-17 - Further Concurrent Logic Programming
2023-12-07 - Audio Programming
2023-10-05 - Concurrent Logic Programming, KL1 & KLIC
2023-08-14 - KL1 on a Mac M1
2023-07-12 - Garbage collection nowadays
2023-04-30 - Document processing
2023-04-02 - High-level languages in production

2022

2022-12-20 - Concurrency & Parallelism Models
2022-12-19 - Language extension, starting from a large implementation
2022-11-27 - Correction: SML is Back on the Menu
2022-11-23 - GObject Introspection
2022-11-12 - Component-based Software Development
2022-09-07 - C++ Core Guidelines
2022-09-06 - Trying to Revive sml_tk
2022-09-05 - Standard ML in Production
2022-03-22 - An Increased Security Posture
2022-02-07 - Libmir on D
2022-01-21 - Some Updates

2021

2021-11-07 - D FFI
2021-11-06 - Gradual Migration Rather Than Rewriting
2021-10-24 - A Review of Post-C Languages
2021-10-17 - A Review of MUD Tech
2021-09-27 - Hardened Interpreters, Beyond C
2021-09-20 - Oberon FFI
2021-07-19 - Memory Optimization
2021-07-14 - COBOL-in-Lisp
2021-06-05 - CII Revisited
2021-05-15 - Back to High-level Code
2021-05-02 - Low-level Code
2021-04-24 - Cleaning up C Programs
2021-04-18 - Easy-ISLisp Patches
2021-03-26 - Some Book Recommendations
2021-03-24 - Le-Lisp, EISL Work-in-Progress
2021-03-19 - Book Recommendation
2021-03-18 - AlphaSmart Neo 2
2021-03-07 - Platform
2021-03-02 - ISLisp, again
2021-01-20 - Revisiting ISLisp

2020

2020-12-15 - "Settling"
2020-11-21 - YAGNI and Porting
2020-10-23 - Colophon
2020-10-09 - Starting out

Other gemlogs I enjoy

Alex Schroeder's gemlog
Idiomdrottning's texts
Hindsight >>= Foresight
yatg
Back to my homepage

Thanks for stopping by!