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Except it originally stood for "Yet Another Markup Language"[1], and the newer name only means to separate it from HTML and other document-oriented markup langu
by keville 9y ago
Except it originally stood for "Yet Another Markup Language"[1], and the newer name only means to separate it from HTML and other document-oriented markup languages.
[1] http://yaml.org/spec/history/2001-08-01.html http://yaml.org/spec/history/2001-08-01.html
- cowardlydragon 9y agoEh, probably because XML was so prevalent when YAML came out, and the fact that XML in most programmatic contexts was just a serialized tree data structure, not a "semantic document" using "markup".
- kingbirdy 9y agoAh, I wasn't aware of the old name, thanks!