Re: [Vala] What's in the name Vala?

[Matias De la Puente <mfpuente ar gmail com>]

El mar, 01-02-2011 a las 11:53 +0100, Sylvain Leroux escribió:
> Hi Vala Team!
>
> I just discovered Vala a few days ago - but I found it very interesting
> (clean syntax, reference counting based memory management allowing RAII,
> easy integration with C code).
>
> So I decided to write a brief introduction to Vala (in french) for my
> students: easy installation for Debian (using apt), the hello world
> borrowed from the Gnome web site, and certainly a short program
> demonstrating some features of the language such as OOP and closures.
> Just to have the feeling of that language.
>
>
> Anyway,  I have a trivia question on my mind: where did the name "Vala"
> come from?

Some time ago someone ask that question[0], the answer... nobody
knows... :)

Matias

[0] http://mail.gnome.org/archives/vala-list/2009-May/msg00010.html