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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:- YACC: Yet Another Compiler Compiler (supplied with Unix and Unix like systems).
- YAST: Yet Another Setup Tool (part of the SUSE Linux distro).
- 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)
- YAPC : Yet Another Perl Conference.
- YaBB: Yet Another Bulletin Board.
- YABA: Yet Another Bloody Acronym (see TLA).
- YAFC: Yet Another FTP Client.
- YAUN: Yet Another Unix Nerd.
- YAAP: Yet Another Ascension Post (an announcement of a win at NetHackNetHack is a roguelike computer game. It is an evolution of an earlier game called Hack which was itself an evolution of the much more famous Rogue''. The name NetHack stems from the fact that its development was originally coordinated through the Interne).
- YASNSWith a lull following the much-unnoticed creation and disappearance of the original Sixdegrees. com, the world wide web has been hit with a blizzard of social networking web sites, with Friendster rekindling the craze, and sites such as Orkut and Thefaceb: Yet Another Social Networking Service
- YapIn computing Yap Y''et A''nother P''reviewer is a PostScript previewer. It is used to dynamically edit and re-render PostScript as if one was editing a file, unlike the actual PostScript interpreter itself (such as ghostscript), which deals with PostScrip: Yet Another Previewer
- Yahoo!Yahoo is an Internet portal and Web directory. It was founded by Stanford graduate students David Filo and Jerry Yang in January 1994 and incorporated in March 1995. The company is headquartered in Sunnyvale, California. According to Alexa Internet, a web: Yet Another HierarchicalA hierarchy (Greek hieros sacred, arkho rule) is a system of ranking and organizing things. Different fields use the word in slightly different ways, but a particular definition (below) captures the core of almost all uses. Originally, "hierarchy" meant " Officious OracleFor alternate usages of "Oracle", see Oracle (disambiguation Oracles are human beings who make predictions, or offer insight, based on a (claimed) connection to the Gods. In the ancient world many sites gained a reputation for the dispensing of oracular w
This jargon is also used in non-abbreviated form, and the inevitable 'Yet Another YAPC report' has also been used.
