Yet Another

jargon (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 SimulatedAnnealing 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, YAUN.

[Jargon File]

(1996-11-26)