| Hacker Slang: Yet Another |
[From Unix's yacc(1), ‘Yet Another Compiler-Compiler’, a LALR parser generator]
1. Of your own work: A humorous allusion often used in titles to acknowledge that the topic is not original, though the content is. As in ‘Yet Another AI Group’ or ‘Yet Another Simulated Annealing Algorithm’.
2. Of others' work: Describes something of which there are already far too many. See also YA-, YABA, YAUN.
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In hacker jargon, the use of yet another as a way of padding out an acronym is fairly common. It was first used by Stephen C. Johnson in the late 1970s in naming yacc, as a humorous reference to the proliferation of such compiler-compilers at the time. Examples include:
This jargon is also used in non-abbreviated form, and the inevitable 'Yet Another YAPC report' has also been used.
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