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In hacker jargon, the use of yet another as a way of padding out an acronym is fairly common. It was first used by Stephen C. Johnson in the late 1970s in naming yacc, as a humorous reference to the proliferation of such compiler-compilers at the time. Examples include:

YAAP: Yet Another Ascension Post (an announcement of a win at NetHack)
YaAST: Yet Another Avatar Setup Tool, written to help changing the user's Avatar in most BB-Software
YABA: Yet Another Bloody Acronym (see Acronym and initialism#Current_use).
YABASIC: Yet Another BASIC
YaBB: Yet Another Bulletin Board
yaboot: Yet Another Bootloader
YACAS: Yet Another Computer Algebra System
YACC: Yet Another Compiler Compiler (supplied with Unix and Unix-like systems)
YACD: Yet Another Character Dump (a description of a character in Angband)
YAFC: Yet Another FTP Client
YafRay: Yet Another Free Raytracer
YAFFS: Yet Another Flash File System
YANFS: Yet Another NFS (originally named WebNFS)
Yagl: Yet Another Game Library
YAHT: Yet Another Haskell Tutorial
Yahoo!: Yet Another Hierarchical Officious Oracle^[1]
YaJa: Yet Another Jabber API
YAK: Yet Another Commodity
YaKuake: Yet Another Kuake (KDE Quake-style console)
YAL: Yet Another Lightmapper
Yalc: Yet Another Liero Clone
YALC: Yet Another Language Compiler
YALE: Yet Another Line Editor (the system editor supplied with the UCSD Pascal p-System operating system/user environment; available for 8080, Z-80, 6809, 680x0, 808x, ... CPUs)
YALMIP: Yet Another LMI Parser (See YALMIP, Convex programming and Semidefinite programming)
YALTA: Yet Another Leak Test Application
YAM: Yet Another Mailer (MUA)
YamiPod: Yet Another iPod Manager
YAML: Originally, Yet Another Markup Language
YAML: Yet Another Multicolumn Layout
YAP: Yet Another Previewer
YAP: Yet Another Prolog
YAPC: Yet Another Perl Conference
yaRTI: Yet Another Run-Time Infrastructure
YARV: Yet another Ruby VM
YARTOS: Yet Another Real-Time Operating System
YAS: formerly, Yet Another Society, now known as The Perl Foundation
YASD: Yet Another Stupid Death, a death in NetHack caused by pilot error
YASN: Yet Another Social Network
YASNS: Yet Another Social Networking Service
YAST: Yet Another Setup Tool (part of the SUSE Linux distro)
YATI: Yet Another Trek Incongruence. Indicates an error found in a Star Trek episode, usually by fans. It is arguably the most used YA* among geeks.^{[citation needed]}
YATTT: Yet Another Tengwar Transcribing Tool
YAUN: Yet Another Unix Nerd
YAWL: Yet Another Workflow Language
Yaws: Yet another web server
YAYACC: Yet Another Yet Another Compiler Compiler
YAZ: Yet Another Z39.50 (Index Data's toolkit)