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

[Samuel Gyger <samuel gyger at>]

As Vala was invented by Jürg and Raffaele, I would say the post about
131 Vala should be the answer. But only a post of Jürg could lift the
curtain.

Samuel


On Fri, Feb 4, 2011 at 22:03, Sylvain Leroux <sylvain chicoree fr> wrote:
> 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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