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

["Frederick Parotat" <tzann gmx net>]

Another possibility could be the Seeress Vala . . from which the Völuspá  
came.

 . . . mixing past and future together ;-) . . .

Seeress: an ancient mythological character, who's able to foresee.
Language: Somehow innovativ idea and "new" programming language utilizing  
"ancient" C

 . . . or something like that :-P . . .

Am 06.05.2009, 12:27 Uhr, schrieb 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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