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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:
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By ErnieCash in Just Another Blog ! ... By ErnieCash in Just Another Blog. A friend of mine was killed on Tuesday. by a cell phone. ...www.victoriaadvocate.com/weblogs/just-another-blog/?page=2In 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:
- 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 Acronym and initialism#Current_use).
- 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
- YAFFS: Yet Another Flash File System
- YANFS: Yet Another NFS (originally named WebNFS)
- Yagl: Yet Another Game Library
- YAHT: Yet Another Haskell Tutorial
- Yahoo!: Yet Another Hierarchical Officious OracleFact: date=August 2008
- YaJa: Yet Another Jabber API
- YAK: Yet Another Commodity
- 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)
- YALMIP: Yet Another LMI Parser (See YALMIP, Convex programming and Semidefinite programming)
- YALTA: Yet Another Leak Test Application
- YAM: Yet Another Mailer (MUA)
- YamiPod: Yet Another iPod Manager
- YAML: Originally, Yet Another Markup Language
- YAML: Yet Another Multicolumn Layout
- YAP: Yet Another Previewer
- YAP: Yet Another Prolog
- YAPC: Yet Another Perl Conference
- yaRTI: Yet Another Run-Time Infrastructure
- YARV: Yet another Ruby VM
- YARTOS: Yet Another Real-Time Operating System
- YAS: formerly, Yet Another Society, now known as The Perl Foundation
- YASD: Yet Another Stupid Death, a death in NetHack caused by pilot error
- 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.Fact: date=April 2008
- 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)
