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 <[email protected]> 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 >> >> _______________________________________________ >> vala-list mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/vala-list > > > _______________________________________________ > vala-list mailing list > [email protected] > http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/vala-list > _______________________________________________ vala-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/vala-list
