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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. Examples include:

  • YAAP: Yet Another Ascension Post (an announcement of a win at NetHack)
  • YaAST: Yet Another Avatar Setup Tool, written to help changing the user's Avatar in most BB-Software
  • YABA: Yet Another Bloody Acronym (see TLA).
  • YABASIC: Yet Another BASIC
  • YaBB: Yet Another Bulletin Board
  • yaboot: Yet Another Bootloader
  • YACAS: Yet Another Computer Algebra System
  • YACC: Yet Another Compiler Compiler (supplied with Unix and Unix-like systems)
  • YACD: Yet Another Character Dump (a description of a character in Angband)
  • YAFC: Yet Another FTP Client
  • YafRay: Yet Another Free Raytracer
  • Yagl: Yet Another Game Library
  • Yahoo!: Yet Another Hierarchical Officious Oracle
  • YaJa: Yet Another Jabber API
  • YaKuake: Yet Another Kuake (KDE Quake-style console)
  • Yalc: Yet Another Liero Clone
  • YALC: Yet Another Language Compiler
  • YALE: Yet Another Line Editor (the system editor supplied with the UCSD Pascal p-System operating system/user environment; available for 8080, Z-80, 6809, 680x0, 808x, ... CPUs)
  • YALTA: Yet Another Leak Test Application
  • YAM: Yet Another Mailer (MUA)
  • YamiPod: Yet Another iPod Manager
  • YAML: Originally, Yet Another Markup Language
  • YAP: Yet Another Previewer
  • YAP: Yet Another Prolog
  • YAPC: Yet Another Perl Conference
  • YAS: Yet Another Society
  • YASN: Yet Another Social Network
  • YASNS: Yet Another Social Networking Service
  • YAST: Yet Another Setup Tool (part of the SUSE Linux distro)
  • YATI: Yet Another Trek Incongruence. Indicates an error found in a Star Trek episode, usually by fans. It is arguably the most used YA* among geeks
  • YATTT: Yet Another Tengwar Transcribing Tool
  • YAUN: Yet Another Unix Nerd
  • YAWL: Yet Another Workflow Language
  • YAYACC: Yet Another Yet Another Compiler Compiler
  • YAZ: Yet Another Z39.50 (Index Data's toolkit)

This jargon is also used in non-abbreviated form, and the inevitable 'Yet Another YAPC report' has also been used.

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