Java Glossary
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- Y2K
- This is an acronym for the year 2000 problem, where programmers
wrote code without considering how it would work beyond 1999.
- YACC
- Yet Another Compiler Compiler. Together
with LEX, YACC allows you to describe a grammar in LALR(1) notation and
YACC generates C code for a program to parse it incorporating your action
stub code. Similar tools exist to generate Java source code.
There is a
YACCable Java grammar.
See parser.
- yawn
- A word used in comp.lang.java.* Internet postings as the second
rudest insult. As with most insults, it reflects more on the insultor
than the insultee. see sigh.
- YMMV
- Your Mileage May Vary. A general
caveat attached to advice warning that it may not apply to other
people's machines, or that the effects may be somewhat different.
The author has tested whatever he said in only a few cases. The
author is making a disclaimer that his advice may not be
generally applicable.
- YMODEM
- A variant of XMODEM that lets you send a batch of files. It sends the name
and size of the file along with the file data proper so you don't need
to separately inform both sender and receiver of the file's name.