<div dir="ltr"><div><div>Agda is a female given name in Swedish. I've
heard claims that the name of the computer language is a reference
to the humorous song "Hönan Agda" [Agda the hen] by
Cornelis Vreeswijk. A companion for Coq, as it were.<br></div><br></div>Vilhelm<div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Jul 6, 2016 at 3:03 PM, Peter Selinger <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:selinger@mathstat.dal.ca" target="_blank">selinger@mathstat.dal.ca</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Does anyone know why Agda is called Agda? I realize the name is based<br>
on the 1999 "Agda 1" by Catarina Coquand, but what was the meaning of<br>
the original name? Is it an acronym (I noticed that some of the early<br>
papers spell it AGDA)? Or is it someone's name? I looked at some of<br>
the Agda 1 materials, but found no explanation.<br>
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Just curious, -- Peter<br>
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