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Free software has some glib naming conventions (feddit.uk)
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[–] Ephera@lemmy.ml 10 points 2 days ago

Yeah, like YAML, which's name originally meant "Yet Another Markup Language*.

Then they redubbed it to mean "YAML Ain't Markup Language", because well, it isn't actually a markup language. 🫠

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/YAML#History_and_name