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| YA |
| Yet Another |
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| YABA |
| Yet Another Bloody Acronym: Whenever
some program is being named, someone invariably suggests that
it be given a name that is acronymic. The response from those
with a trace of originality is to remark ironically that the
proposed name would then be "YABA-compatible". Also used in
response to questions like "What is {WYSIWYG}?" |
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| YAFIGY |
| You Asekd For It. You Get It:[coined in response to WYSIWYG] Describes the command-oriented ed/vi/nroff/TeX style of word processing or other user
interface, the opposite of WYSIWYG. Stands for "You asked for it, you got it", because what you actually asked for is often
not apparent until long after it is too late to do anything about it. Used to denote perversity ("Real Programmers use YAFIYGI
tools...and like it!") or, less often, a necessary tradeoff ("Only a YAFIYGI tool can have full programmable flexibility in its
interface."). |
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| Yafl |
| Yafl is an object oriented
programming language loosely based on Modula 2. One of YAFL's major
motivation was to be a strict language which provides inheritance as well as
a garbage collector. These ideas are essential to the YAFL design, and each
of these deserves a paragraph of its own. Furthermore, YAFL provides an
original feature called the compiler support. One of the major implication of
this feature is the enhanced portability which can be achieved.
Requires GCC and EMX(Yafl is an OS/2 program on hobbes). |
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| YAOS |
| Yet Another (Scheme) Object System |
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| YAPS |
| Yet Another Production System?: {College Park Software}. A
commercial {production system} rule language, simpler than
{OPS5}. YAPS allows {knowledge base}s to be attached to
instances of {CLOS} {object}s. |
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| Yello PAges |
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(YP) Former name for {Sun Microsystems}' {Network
Information Service}. Renamed because Yellow Pages is a
trademark of {British Telecommunications} plc in the United
Kingdom. |
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| Yet Another |
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(YA-, after {Unix}'s {yacc} - Yet Another
Compiler-Compiler) 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}". If used of others' work, it describes
something of which there are already far too many.
In hackish acronyms the "YA" prefix almost invariably expands
to {Yet Another}, e.g. -->YABA |
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| YLISP |
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A variant of {Xlisp} from {Hewlett-Packard} for the HP-95LX
{palmtop}. |
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| yottabyte |
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(1.) [unit] 2^80 = 1,208,925,819,614,629,174,706,176 {bytes} = 1024{zettabytes}. (2.) as prefix {yotta} |
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| You are not expected to understand this |
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[Unix] The canonical comment describing something {magic} or
too complicated to bother explaining properly. From an
infamous comment in the context-switching code of the V6
{Unix} {kernel}. |
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| yoyo mode |
| The state in which a computer is said to be when it
rapidly alternates several times between being up and being
down. Interestingly (and perhaps not by coincidence), many
hardware vendors give out free yoyos at {Usenix} exhibits.
{Sun Microsystems} gave out logoised yoyos at SIGPLAN '88.
Tourists staying at one of Atlanta's most respectable hotels were
subsequently treated to the sight of 200 of the country's top
computer scientists testing yo-yo {algorithm}s in the lobby. |
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