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Re:XML is better than YAML by dragonwriter on Thursday September 21, 2023 @01:41AM (#37593608)
> And, on that note, I think that if I could pick as single thing that irritates me the most about YAML, it's that it isn't actually a ML.

“YAML ain't markup language” is kinda the whole point.

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Re:XML is better than YAML by LukeShu on Thursday September 21, 2023 @01:55AM (#37593710)
For a full year it stood for "Yet Another Markup Language".

First draft: https://yaml.org/spec/history/2001-03-30.html

Last draft calling it that: https://yaml.org/spec/history/2001-12-10.html

First draft with the new acronym: https://yaml.org/spec/history/2002-04-07.html

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Re:XML is better than YAML by xorcist on Thursday September 21, 2023 @04:47AM (#37594914)
It's also funny that the file extension YML is the successor of XML, so the rest is probably a backronym from that.
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Re:XML is better than YAML by thaumasiotes on Thursday September 21, 2023 @06:28AM (#37595677)
Wouldn't the successor of XML be XMM?
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Re:XML is better than YAML by mumblemumble on Thursday September 21, 2023 @08:28AM (#37596619)
Next you'll be telling me Beyonce's sisters should be named Beyoncd and Beyoncf instead of Aeyonce and Ceyonce.
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Re:XML is better than YAML by mvandermeulen on Thursday September 21, 2023 @10:32PM (#37607188)
Feyonce can’t get anyone to believe she’s married and Vakira’s has astonishingly honest hips
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Re:XML is better than YAML by dragonwriter on Thursday September 21, 2023 @11:09AM (#37598781)
Judging from BCPL, the successor should just be Y.
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Re:XML is better than YAML by dragonwriter on Thursday September 21, 2023 @11:07AM (#37598764)
The file extensions for yaml is .yaml, .yml is the alternative because of legacy 8.3 systems.
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