The Jargon File (version 4.4.7, 29 Dec 2003):
Yet Another
adj.
[From Unix's yacc(1), ?Yet Another Compiler-Compiler?, a LALR parser
generator]
1. Of your own work: A humorous allusion often used in titles to
acknowledge that the topic is not original, though the content is. As in
?Yet Another AI Group? or ?Yet Another Simulated Annealing Algorithm?.
2. Of others' work: Describes something of which there are already far too
many. See also YA-, YABA, YAUN.
The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (30 December 2018):
Yet Another
YA-
(YA-, after Unix's yacc - Yet Another
Compiler-Compiler) A humorous allusion often used in titles to
acknowledge that the topic is not original, though the content
is. As in "Yet Another AI Group" or "Yet Another Simulated
Annealing Algorithm". If used of others' work, it
describes something of which there are already far too many.
In hackish acronyms the "YA" prefix almost invariably expands
to Yet Another, e.g. YABA, YAUN.
[Jargon File]
(1996-11-26)