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

[Sylvain Leroux <sylvain chicoree fr>]

Thanks for all your answers,
and for the pointer to a previous thread.

I will stay on "nobody knows" - but there are interesting suggestions,
funny guesses and rumors!

- Sylvain 

On Thu, 2011-02-03 at 10:07 -0800, Adam Dingle wrote:
> > El mar, 01-02-2011 a las 11:53 +0100, Sylvain Leroux escribió:
> > > Hi Vala Team!
> > >
> > > ...
> > >
> > > 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
>
> Right.  By the way, I asked Jürg about the origin of the Vala name at a 
> conference a year or so ago and he did mention this:
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/131_Vala
>
> (Which in turn is named after http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Völva .)
>
> adam
>
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