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 Boardyaboot: Yet Another
BootloaderYACAS: 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
OracleYaJa: 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 SocietyYASN: Yet Another Social NetworkYASNS: 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
geeksYATTT: Yet Another
Tengwar Transcribing ToolYAUN: Yet Another Unix Nerd
YAWL: Yet Another Workflow LanguageYAYACC: Yet Another Yet Another Compiler Compiler
YAZ: Yet Another Z39.50 (Index Data's toolkit)
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jargon> (YA-, after
Unix's
yacc - Yet Another Compiler-Compiler) 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". If used of others' work, it describes something of which there are already far too many.
In hackish acronyms the "YA" prefix almost invariably expands to
Yet Another, e.g.
YABA,
YAUN.
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Jargon File]
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