Rescule the VTLA list from the old wiki snapshot

doc/sphinx/reference/index.rst

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 	vsl.rst
 	vsl-query.rst
 	vtc.rst
+	vtla.rst
 
 .. todo::
 	The programs:

doc/sphinx/reference/vtla.rst

+.. role:: ref(emphasis)
+
+.. _vtla:
+
+====================================
+VTLA - Varnish Three Letter Acronyms
+====================================
+
+Very early in the project, we made a fortunate bargain on eBay,
+buying up a batch of 676 three letter acronyms, all starting with
+'V'.
+
+This page tells you what we use them for, if & when we remember to
+add them...
+
+VAV
+    Varnish Arg Vector -- Argv parsing. 
+
+VBE
+    Varnish Back End -- Code for contacting backends
+    (bin/varnishd/cache_backend.c) 
+
+VBP
+    Varnish Backend Polling -- Health checks of backends
+    (bin/varnishd/cache_backend_poll.c) 
+
+VCA
+    Varnish Connection Acceptor -- The code that receives/accepts the
+    TCP connections (bin/varnishd/cache_acceptor.c) 
+
+VCC
+    VCL to C Compiler -- The code that compiles VCL to C code. (lib/libvcl) 
+
+VCL
+    Varnish Configuration Language -- The domain-specific programming
+    language used for configuring a varnishd. 
+
+VCT
+    Varnish CType(3) -- Character classification for RFC2616 and XML parsing. 
+
+VDD
+    Varnish (Core) Developer Day -- Quarterly invite-only meeting strictly
+    for Varnish core (C) developers, packagers and VMOD hackers. 
+
+VEV
+    Varnish EVent -- library functions to implement a simple event-dispatcher. 
+
+VGB
+    Varnish Governing Board -- May or may not exist.
+    If you need to ask, you are not on it. 
+
+VGC
+    Varnish Generated Code -- Code generated by VCC from VCL. 
+
+VIN
+    Varnish Instance Naming -- Resolution of -n arguments. 
+
+VLU
+    Varnish Line Up -- library functions to collect stream of bytes
+    into lines for processing. (lib/libvarnish/vlu.c) 
+
+VRE
+    Varnish Regular Expression -- library functions for regular expression
+    based matching and substring replacement. (lib/libvarnish/vre.c) 
+
+VRT
+    Varnish Run Time -- functions called from compiled code.
+    (bin/varnishd/cache_vrt.c) 
+
+VRY
+    VaRY -- Related to processing of Vary: HTTP headers.
+    (bin/varnishd/cache_vary.c) 
+
+VSL
+    Varnish Shared memory Log -- The log written into the shared
+    memory segment for varnish{log,ncsa,top,hist} to see. 
+
+VSB
+    Varnish string Buffer -- a copy of the FreeBSD "sbuf" library,
+    for safe string handling. 
+
+VSC
+    Varnish Statistics Counter -- counters for various stats,
+    exposed via varnishapi. 
+
+VSS
+    Varnish Session Stuff -- library functions to wrap DNS/TCP.
+    (lib/libvarnish/vss.c) 
+
+VTC
+    Varnish Test Code -- a test-specification for the varnishtest program. 
+
+VTLA
+    Varnish Three Letter Acronym -- No rule without an exception. 
+
+VUG
+    Varnish User Group meeting -- Half-yearly event where the users and
+    developers of Varnish Cache gather to share experiences and plan
+    future development. 
+
+VWx
+    Varnish Waiter 'x' -- A code module to monitor idle sessions. 
+
+VWE
+    Varnish Waiter Epoll -- epoll(2) (linux) based waiter module. 
+
+VWK
+    Varnish Waiter Kqueue -- kqueue(2) (freebsd) based waiter module. 
+
+VWP
+    Varnish Waiter Poll -- poll(2) based waiter module. 
+
+VWS
+    Varnish Waiter Solaris -- Solaris ports(2) based waiter module. 
+
+
+
+COPYRIGHT
+=========
+
+This document is licensed under the same licence as Varnish
+itself. See LICENCE for details.
+
+* Copyright (c) 2019 Varnish Software AS