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> And, on that note, I think that if I could pick as single thing that irritates me the most about YAML, it's that it isn't actually a ML.

“YAML ain't markup language” is kinda the whole point.

For a full year it stood for "Yet Another Markup Language".

It's also funny that the file extension YML is the successor of XML, so the rest is probably a backronym from that.

Wouldn't the successor of XML be XMM?

Next you'll be telling me Beyonce's sisters should be named Beyoncd and Beyoncf instead of Aeyonce and Ceyonce.

Feyonce can’t get anyone to believe she’s married and Vakira’s has astonishingly honest hips

Judging from BCPL, the successor should just be Y.

The file extensions for yaml is .yaml, .yml is the alternative because of legacy 8.3 systems.