Editing Yet another

{{Short description|Idiomatic qualifier used in the name of programs}}
A [[naming convention]] as a form of [[computer humour]]<ref>{{Cite web |title=hacker humor |url=http://www.catb.org/jargon/html/H/hacker-humor.html |access-date=2023-11-23 |website=www.catb.org}}</ref> especially among playful programmers, '''yet another''' is often abbreviated '''ya''', '''Ya''', or '''YA''' in the prefix of an [[acronym]] or [[backronym]].

This humorous prefix is an idiomatic qualifier in the name of a computer program, organization, or event for the intention of elevating love and interest for something that seems confessedly unoriginal or unnecessarily repeated.<ref>{{cite web|
title=Yet Another|
work=The on-line hacker [[Jargon File]]|
version=4.4.7|
date=29 Dec 2003|
editor=Eric S. Raymond|
editor-link=Eric S. Raymond|
url=http://catb.org/jargon/html/Y/Yet-Another.html|
access-date=20 January 2020}}</ref> This is a programmer [[practical joke]] which is an allusion to the culture of programmer esteem for perfection as seen by software programming principles such as [[KISS principle|"Keep It Simple Stupid" (KISS)]] and [[Don't repeat yourself|"Don't Repeat Yourself" (DRY)]].

[[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.

Outside of computing, the YA construct has appeared in astronomy, where YAMOO means Yet Another Map of Orion.<ref>{{cite news |last1=O’Callaghan |first1=Jonathan |title=The Orion Nebula Is Full of Impossible Enigmas That Come in Pairs |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2023/10/02/science/orion-nebula-webb-planets.html |access-date=8 October 2023 |publisher=New York Times |date=2 October 2023}}</ref>

==Examples==
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*[[Yabasic]] &ndash; Yet Another [[BASIC]]
*[[Yaboot]] &ndash; Yet another boot loader
*[[Yacc]] &ndash; Yet another [[compiler-compiler]]
*[[Yacas]] &ndash; Yet another [[computer algebra system]]
*[[Yet Another Chat Protocol|YACP]]{{snd}} Yet Another Chat Protocol
*[[YaDICs]] &ndash; Yet another Digital Image Correlation Software
*[[YADIFA]] &ndash; Yet Another DNS Implementation For All
*[[YAFFS]] &ndash; Yet Another [[Flash memory|Flash]] [[File system|File System]]
*[[YAGO (database)|YAGO]] &ndash; Yet Another Great Ontology
*[[Yahoo!]] &ndash; Yet Another Hierarchical Officious Oracle (<nowiki/>[[backronym]])<ref>{{cite web|
title=Yahoo! - Company History|
publisher=Yahoo! Inc.|
url=http://docs.yahoo.com/info/misc/history.html|
archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/19991013010252/http://docs.yahoo.com/info/misc/history.html|
archive-date=1999-10-13|
quote=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.}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|
title=What Does "Yahoo" Stand For?|
work=Lifewire|
author=Paul Gil|
publisher=[[Dotdash]]|
date=2 July 2019|
url=https://www.lifewire.com/what-does-yahoo-stand-for-2483337|
access-date=20 January 2020|
quote=Yahoo stands for 'Yet Another Hierarchical Officious Oracle.'}}</ref>
*[[Yakuake]] &ndash; Yet Another Kuake
*[[YAM (Yet Another Mailer)|YAM]] &ndash; Yet Another Mailer, an [[email client]]
*[[YAML]] &ndash; Yet Another [[Markup language|Markup Language]]. Later redefined to YAML Ain't Markup Language, making it a [[recursive acronym]]
*[[Yandex]] &ndash; Yet another indexer,<ref>{{cite web |url=https://yandex.com/company/history/1993 |title=What does "Yandex" mean? |work=History of Yandex |publisher=[[Yandex]] |access-date=26 Dec 2016}}</ref> a [[web search engine]] and [[Index (search engine)|index]]
*[[Newswatcher|YA-NewsWatcher]] &ndash; a [[Usenet]] client for [[classic Mac OS]]
*[[YANG]] &ndash; Yet Another Next Generation 
*[[Yet Another Previewer|YAP]] &ndash; Yet Another Previewer, document previewer
*[[YAP (Prolog)|YAP]] &ndash; Yet Another [[Prolog]], an implementation of the Prolog [[programming language]]
*[[YAPC]] &ndash; Yet Another [[Perl]] [[Professional conference|Conference]]
*[[Apache Hadoop|YARN]] &ndash; Yet Another Resource Negotiator
*[[YARV]] &ndash; Yet Another [[Ruby (programming language)|Ruby]] [[Virtual machine|VM]]
*[[YASARA]] &ndash; Yet Another Scientific Artificial Reality Application, a molecular modeling program
*[[Yasca]] &ndash; Yet another source code analyzer
*[[Yet Another Society|YAS]] &ndash; Yet Another Society, a non-profit organization organizing [[YAPC]]s<ref>{{cite web |url=http://wiki.c2.com/?YetAnotherSociety |title=Yet Another Society on WikiWikiWeb |access-date=5 Jan 2018}}</ref>
*[[Yass_(software)|YASS]] &ndash; Yet Another Similarity Searcher, a pairwise nucleotide [[sequence alignment]] tool with [[Dot_plot_(bioinformatics)|dotplot]]
*[[YaST]] &ndash; Yet another Setup Tool, an [[operating system]] installation and configuration [[Wizard (software)|wizard]] for [[SUSE Linux]] distributions
*[[Y.A.S.U.]] &ndash; Yet Another SecuROM Utility
*[[Yate (telephony engine)|Yate]] &ndash; Yet Another Telephony Engine, VoIP software
*[[YAWC]] &ndash; Yet Another Wersion of Citadel
*[[YAWL]] &ndash; Yet Another Workflow Language, a [[business process modeling]] language for diagramming [[workflow patterns]]
*[[Yaws (web server)|Yaws]] &ndash; Yet another [[web server]]
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==See also==
*[[Another (disambiguation)]]
*All articles starting with "[[Special:Prefixindex/Yet Another|Yet Another]] ..." or "[[Special:Prefixindex/Yet another|Yet another]] ..."
*[[Reinventing the wheel]]

==References==
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[[Category:Computer jargon]]