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.
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.



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