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1. LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864} (lnxw48a1@nu.federati.net)'s status on Saturday, 01-Feb-2020 18:48:33 UTC LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864}
   I’ve been doing some very introductory tutorials for #Lua. It seems pretty interesting. I don’t think it will displace #Tcl and #Python as my favorite scripting languages, but it could become the third in the set.
   
   Seeing that tables (which are dictionaries—associative arrays—that can also act as regular arrays if numeric keys are used) are the only data structure, it sort of twists my mind into contortions trying to imagine how to structure certain kinds of data. That’s good, IMO, because history (took classes decades ago on BASIC, COBOL, Pascal, C, C++, Java, ...) predisposes me to look for arrays and records (or objects that encapsulate records) as the building blocks.
   
   I’ve also downloaded (but not yet installed) #Erlang and #Elixir for Windows.
   • LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864} (lnxw48a1@nu.federati.net)'s status on Sunday, 02-Feb-2020 00:28:14 UTC LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864}

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     Turns out that both #Erlang_OTP and #Elixir are available through #Chocolatey. I've started uninstalling things that I installed directly in #Win10 if I can replace it with a version through Chocolatey. Just getting all my (non-OS) updates through that system is worth it. One of the things I've long hated in Windows is logging into an account with admin rights and getting dozens of notifications that program X, program Y, program Z all need updates.
     
     (For the record, I don't use the Microsoft/Windows store, so I cannot tell whether that would have a similar effect, assuming that it contains the software that I'd want.)