Yaml

//ˈjæməl// name

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Definitions

Proper Noun
  1. 1
    A human-readable data serialization format that takes concepts from XML and from various programming languages.

    "You probably won't have to integrate your software with existing YAML documents in your enterprise. But, in the Ruby world, YAML is popular, maybe even more popular than XML."

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"You probably won't have to integrate your software with existing YAML documents in your enterprise. But, in the Ruby world, YAML is popular, maybe even more popular than XML."

Etymology

Originally an acronym of Yet Another Markup Language, now reinterpreted as YAML Ain't Markup Language.

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