Yet Another

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Yet Another
Usage: adj.
Etymology: Unix
Derivation: From Unix's yacc(1), `Yet Another Compiler-Compiler', a LALR parser generator

See Also: YA-, YABA, YAUN


Yet Another: adj.

[From Unix's yacc(1), `Yet Another Compiler-Compiler', a LALR parser generator]

  1. Of your own work: A humorous allusion often used in titles to acknowledge that the topic is not original, though the content is. As in `Yet Another AI Group' or `Yet Another Simulated Annealing Algorithm'.
  2. Of others' work: Describes something of which there are already far too many. See also YA-, YABA, YAUN.
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Source: Yet Another, in The Jargon File, version 4.4.7.


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