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+author: Torsten
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+It has been a bit of a journey, but now we have arrived: Salama is officially named.
+
+### Salama
+
+Salama is a **real word**, not made up or an acronym (plus). 
+
+It is a word of my  **home-country** Finland, a finnish word (double plus)
+
+Salama means **lightning** (or flash), and that is fast (double double plus) and bright.
+
+As some may have noticed in most places my nick is **dancinglightning**. Nice :-)
+
+Also **my wife** suggested it, so it always reminds me of her.
+
+
+#### Journey
+
+I started with crystal, which i liked. It speaks of clarity. It is related to ruby. All was good.
+
+But I was not the first to have this thought: The name is taken, as i found out by
+chance. Ary Borenszweig started the [project](http://crystal-lang.org/) already two 
+years ago and they not only have a working system, but even compile themselves.
+
+Alas, Ary started out with the idea of ruby on rockets (ie fast), but when the
+dynamic aspects came (as they have for me a month ago), he went for speed, to be
+precise for a static system, not for ruby. 
+So his crystal is now it's own language with ruby-ish style, but not semantics.
+
+That is why i had not found it. But when i did we talked, all was friendly, and we 
+agreed i would look for a new name. 
+
+And so i did and many were taken. Kide (crystal in finish) was a step on the way, 
+as was ruby in ruby. And many candidates were explored and discarded, like broom
+(basic ruby object oriented machine), or som (simple object machine), even ahimsa.
+
+#### Official
+
+But then i found it, or rather we did, as it was a suggestion from my wife: Salama.
+
+After i found the name i made sure to claim it: I published first versions of gems
+for salama and sub-modules. They don't work off course, but at least the name is 
+taken in rubygems too. Off course the github name is too.
+
+So now i can get on with things at lightning speed :-)