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People actually bike shed over .yaml vs .yml? If you thought tabs vs spaces was a useless debate...
by brazzledazzle 7y ago
People actually bike shed over .yaml vs .yml? If you thought tabs vs spaces was a useless debate...
- pixelbash 7y agoNever been comfortable with extension names longer than 3 letters long for some reason..
- wazoox 7y agoMS-DOS. The reason is MS-DOS.
- hendi_ 7y agoThank you for the EXPLAN~1!
- XJ6 7y agoIf anyone's curious this references the 8.3 filename shortening that windows was even still doing recently. Amusingly, that tiny bit of backward compatibility can lead to vulnerabilities as outlined here: https://www.acunetix.com/blog/articles/windows-short-8-3-filenames-web-security-problem/ https://www.acunetix.com/blog/articles/windows-short-8-3-fil...
- tomatocracy 7y agoIt goes back further than that - DOS got the idea of 8.3 filenames from CP/M and before that DEC used three letter file extensions on its minicomputer operating systems. The idea arguably goes back even further into the mainframes of the 1960s although it gets a bit messier then to trace it.
- EdwardDiego 7y agoAll I'm saying mate, is that we don't pronounce it Yiml now, do we. :D