Yet another

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 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
* [http://goddess.selfip.com/yagl/ Yagl] : Yet Another Game Library
* [http://www.cs.utah.edu/~hal/docs/daume02yaht.pdf YAHT] : Yet Another Haskell Tutorial
*Yahoo!: Yet Another Hierarchical Officious OracleFact|date=August 2008
*YaJa: Yet Another Jabber API
*YaKuake: Yet Another Kuake (KDE Quake-style console)
* [http://yalc.sourceforge.net Yalc] : Yet Another Liero Clone
* [http://sourceforge.net/projects/yalcomp/ 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 [http://control.ee.ethz.ch/~joloef/yalmip.php 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
*YAP: Yet Another Previewer
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*YAPC: Yet Another Perl Conference
*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)

This jargon is also used in non-abbreviated form, and the inevitable 'Yet Another YAPC report' has also been used.

External links

* [http://www.catb.org/~esr/jargon/html/Y/Yet-Another.html Current "Yet Another" entry in the Jargon File]
* [http://www.another.by Another from Belarus]