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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.

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.

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  • YAAF – Yet Another Application Framework
  • Yabasic – Yet Another BASIC
  • Yabause – Yet Another Broken and Uncomplete Saturn Emulator
  • Yacc – Yet another compiler compiler
  • Yacas – Yet another computer algebra system
  • YACT – Yet another capture the flag team
  • YACTA – Yet Another CT Analyzer
  • YaDICs – Yet another Digital Image Correlation Software
  • YADIFA – Yet Another DNS Implementation For All
  • YafaRay – Yet another free Ray tracer
  • Yafc – Yet another FTP client
  • YAFFS – Yet Another Flash File System
  • Yafra – Yet Another Framework
  • YAGO – Yet Another Great Ontology
  • Yahoo! – Yet another hierarchical, officious oracle
  • Yakuake – Yet Another Kuake
  • YAM – Yet Another Mailer, an email client
  • YAML – Yet Another Markup Language. Later redefined to YAML Ain't Markup Language, making a recursive acronym
  • Yandex – Yet another indexer, a web search engine and index
  • YA-NewsWatcher – a Usenet client for classic Mac OS
  • YANG – Yet Another Next Generation
  • Yaourt – Yet AnOther User Repository Tool
  • YAP – Yet Another Previewer, document previewer
  • YAP – Yet Another Prolog, an implementation of the Prolog programming language
  • YAPC – Yet Another Perl Conference
  • Operator YAPO – Yet Another Portable Opera
  • YARN – Yet Another Resource Negotiator
  • YARP – Yet Another Robot Platform
  • YARV – Yet Another Ruby VM
  • Yasara – Yet Another Scientific Artificial Reality Application, a molecular modeling program
  • Yasca – Yet Another Source Code Analyzer
  • YaST – Yet another Setup Tool, an operating system installation and configuration wizard for SUSE Linux distributions
  • Y.A.S.U. – Yet Another SecuROM Utility
  • Yate – Yet Another Telephony Engine, VoIP software
  • YAWC – Yet Another Wersion of Citadel
  • YAWL – Yet Another Workflow Language, a business process modeling language for diagramming workflow patterns
  • Yaws – Yet another web server
  • YAZ – Yet Another Z39.50 Toolkit
  • References

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