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[–] [email protected] 16 points 11 months ago (3 children)

YAML is also a recursive acronym. It stands for YAML Ain't Markup Language.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Pretty sure it's Yet Another Markup Language

[–] [email protected] 11 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (2 children)

Nope.

Edit: but TBF that would have made more sense

https://yaml.org/

[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago

I’ve been lied to

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I've been fooled my whole life

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

No, they changed it from yet another to yaml ain't.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 11 months ago (2 children)

Wait… I thought it was “yet another markup language”

Is this another fucking Bearenstein/Mandala reality split?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 11 months ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago

Whoa — I can’t believe YAML’s 22 years old

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

That's interesting!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I just had to go look that up. Yet Another just seems to make more sense, which is why I think a lot of people think that's what it stands for.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago (1 children)

And because that was the original name. They retconned YAML Ain't.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

Yep, just learned that!

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago

And you can use it on GNU Not Unix!