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YAML specifically states it is never a markup language

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Programmers love a good recursive acronym almost as much as they love overcomplicating text. The popular formatting structure officially stands for 'YAML Ain't Markup Language,' proving that technical naming conventions are driven purely by smug irony. It acts entirely like a markup structure, but furiously insists it is fundamentally different.

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