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I've always used .yaml and have never understood why someone would choose .yml. Three letter extensions haven't been a requirement since like DOS 5 and I can't

I've always used .yaml and have never understood why someone would choose .yml. Three letter extensions haven't been a requirement since like DOS 5 and I can't imagine that many developers are both using YAML and still using FAT16 but can't afford VFAT long filename entries.

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cesarb 3y ago
> I've always used .yaml and have never understood why someone would choose .yml. Because it's what the documentation says. For instance, the "Getting Started" example at https://docs.flatpak.org/en/latest/first-build.html https://docs.flatpak.org/en/latest/first-build.html says "call it org.flatpak.Hello.yml" - and that's Flatpak, which has always been a Unix-specific thing.
o11c 3y ago
.yml is similar to .xml
- deathanatos 3y ago
  … but YAML ain't a markup language. (That's the 'A', in YAML, literally.)
  - BerislavLopac 3y ago
    That's a backronym; originally it meant "yet another".
    - deathanatos 3y ago
      The current acronym is old enough to drink. The original acronym, AFAICT looking through The Wayback Machine, lasted less than a year. (The original language was pretty wildly different, and much closer to a markup language.) For those that don't want to wait for the time capsule, here is the earliest example of it (I've shortened it from the original for brevity; best I can gather this should also have been valid): <timesheet.clarkevans.com:record> <person:record> <id:int> 293945</id:int> <name:record> <given> Clark</given> <family> Evans</family></name:record></person:record> </timesheet.clarkevans.com:record> You can feel the XML influence. Oddly it kept the "Another" well into the evolution of not being a markup language anymore, but on the grand scale of things, didn't really keep it that long.
arp242 3y ago
Old DOS "8.3" restri~1 are still followed by some people. Force of habit I suppose? Also the docume~1 or examples of some projects use .yml and I can't be bothered to experi~1 if both work, because it doesn't really matter.
quectophoton 3y ago
> have never understood why someone would choose .yml Probably for the same reason people don't type other 4-letter extensions, like `.ruby` or `.rust`. I guess `.java` is the exception (no pun intended).

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cesarb 3y ago

> I've always used .yaml and have never understood why someone would choose .yml. Because it's what the documentation says. For instance, the "Getting Started" example at https://docs.flatpak.org/en/latest/first-build.html https://docs.flatpak.org/en/latest/first-build.html says "call it org.flatpak.Hello.yml" - and that's Flatpak, which has always been a Unix-specific thing.

o11c 3y ago

.yml is similar to .xml

deathanatos 3y ago
… but YAML ain't a markup language. (That's the 'A', in YAML, literally.)
- BerislavLopac 3y ago
  That's a backronym; originally it meant "yet another".
  - deathanatos 3y ago
    The current acronym is old enough to drink. The original acronym, AFAICT looking through The Wayback Machine, lasted less than a year. (The original language was pretty wildly different, and much closer to a markup language.) For those that don't want to wait for the time capsule, here is the earliest example of it (I've shortened it from the original for brevity; best I can gather this should also have been valid): <timesheet.clarkevans.com:record> <person:record> <id:int> 293945</id:int> <name:record> <given> Clark</given> <family> Evans</family></name:record></person:record> </timesheet.clarkevans.com:record> You can feel the XML influence. Oddly it kept the "Another" well into the evolution of not being a markup language anymore, but on the grand scale of things, didn't really keep it that long.

arp242 3y ago

Old DOS "8.3" restri~1 are still followed by some people. Force of habit I suppose? Also the docume~1 or examples of some projects use .yml and I can't be bothered to experi~1 if both work, because it doesn't really matter.

quectophoton 3y ago

> have never understood why someone would choose .yml Probably for the same reason people don't type other 4-letter extensions, like `.ruby` or `.rust`. I guess `.java` is the exception (no pun intended).