: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}.
-- The AI Hackers Dictionary
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}.
-- The AI Hackers Dictionary
Related:
- Yet Another adj.
[From Unix's yacc(1), `Yet
Another Compiler-Compiler',
a LALR parser generator] 1. Of your own work: A... - YA-: [Yet Another] abbrev. In hackish acronyms this almost
invariably expands to {Yet Another},
following the precedent set by UNIX `yacc(1)' (Yet... - YA- abbrev.
[Yet Another] In hackish acronyms this almost
invariably expands to Yet Another,
following the precedent set by Unix yacc(1) (Yet... - YAUN: /yawn/ [Acronym for `Yet Another UNIX Nerd'] n.
Reported from the San Diego Computer Society (predominantly... - SMOP: /S-M-O-P/ [Simple (or Small) Matter of Programming] n.
1. A piece of code, not yet written, whose anticipated... - YABA: /ya'b*/ [Cambridge] n. Yet Another Bloody Acronym.
Whenever some program is being named, someone invariably... - thud: n. 1. Yet another {metasyntactic variable} (see {foo}).
It is reported that at CMU from the mid-1970s the canonical... - shell [orig. Multics n.
techspeak, widely propagated
via Unix] 1.
[techspeak] The command interpreter used to pass ... - jock: n. 1. A programmer who is characterized by large and somewhat
brute-force programs.
See {brute force}. 2. When modified by another...
From the same category:
- Giants =*= Give LT a blow--
I mean a rest... - No one looks good in
yellow... - Someday you WILL come to your senses,
and cheer for the Habs... - If you really want to annoy your neighbors and worry them no end,
cause them to sit up nights in anxiety, than there... - The marvels of today's modern technology include the development of a
soda can,
when discarded will last forever ... and a $7,000 car...
