Re: [Vala] why this new and innovative programming language called Vala?

[Daniel Lucraft <dan fluentradical com>]

> On Tue, 2009-05-05 at 21:37 +0100, Sam Liddicott wrote:
> > Philip Van Hoof wrote:
> > > Jürg has denied it, but we all know that secretly Jürg is a big fan and
> > > stalker of Vala Mal Doran.
> > >
> > > Another reason is the French word voila. As in "Voila! That's how you do
> > > it!"
> > >
> > > We'll never know, Jürg has so far denied any guess we made at
> > > conferences and meetings.
> > >
> > > Which means that Vala comes from Vala Mal Doran. I mean, woah!
> > My guess is from Tolkein: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vala_(Middle-earth)

That's why I called my Ruby binding generator for Vala "Valar" !
http://github.com/danlucraft/valar/tree/master

Also because it's Vala + R.

DBL

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