<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="overflow-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;">From https://www.computerworld.com/article/2534771/yacc--unix--and-advice-from--bell-labs-alumni-stephen-johnson.html<div><br></div><blockquote style="margin: 0 0 0 40px; border: none; padding: 0px;"><div><b style="font-family: museo-sans, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, sans-serif; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;">What made you name your parser generator in the form of an acronym: Yet Another Compiler Compiler?</b><span style="font-family: museo-sans, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, sans-serif; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;"> There were other Compiler-compilers in use at Bell Labs, especially as part of the Multics project. I was familiar with a version of McClure's TMG. When Jeff Ullman heard about my program, he said in astonishment "Another compiler-compiler?". Thus the name...</span></div><div><span style="font-family: museo-sans, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, sans-serif; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;"><br></span></div></blockquote><div><div><blockquote type="cite"><div>On Oct 2, 2023, at 6:25 PM, Douglas McIlroy <douglas.mcilroy@dartmouth.edu> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div><div>Steve,<br><br>Was Yacc an original coinage, or was it inspired by a similar acronym<br>for yet another whatever? The question is inspired by Yamoo, yet<br>another map of Orion, which is mentioned in today's NYT:<br>https://www.nytimes.com/2023/10/02/science/orion-nebula-webb-planets.html.<br>Do the two acronyms share a common ancestor?<br><br>Doug<br></div></div></blockquote></div><br></div></body></html>