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

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And you can use it on GNU Not Unix!

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

Is this another fucking Bearenstein/Mandala reality split?

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

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That’s interesting!

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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.

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

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Pretty sure it’s Yet Another Markup Language

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Nope.

Edit: but TBF that would have made more sense

https://yaml.org/

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I’ve been fooled my whole life

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I’ve been lied to

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