Yet another

Among programmers, yet another (often abbreviated ya, Ya, or YA in the initial part of an acronym) is an idiomatic qualifier in the name of a computer program, organisation, or event that is confessedly unoriginal.[1]

Stephen C. Johnson is credited with establishing the naming convention in the late 1970s when he named his compiler-compiler yacc (Yet Another Compiler-Compiler), since he felt there were already numerous compiler-compilers in circulation at the time.

Yet another

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References

  1. Eric S. Raymond, ed. (29 Dec 2003). "Yet Another". The on-line hacker Jargon File. 4.4.7. Retrieved 20 January 2020.
  2. "Yahoo! - Company History". Yahoo! Inc. Archived from the original on 1999-10-13. The name Yahoo! is supposed to stand for 'Yet Another Hierarchical Officious Oracle' but Filo and Yang insist they selected the name because they considered themselves yahoos.
  3. Paul Gil (2 July 2019). "What Does "Yahoo" Stand For?". Lifewire. Dotdash. Retrieved 20 January 2020. Yahoo stands for 'Yet Another Hierarchical Officious Oracle.'
  4. "What does "Yandex" mean?". History of Yandex. Yandex. Retrieved 26 Dec 2016.
  5. "Yapf". Retrieved 22 Oct 2020.
  6. "Yet Another Society on WikiWikiWeb". Retrieved 5 Jan 2018.
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