Editing YAML (section)

==History and name==
YAML ({{IPAc-en|ˈ|j|æ|m|əl}}, rhymes with ''camel''<ref name="YAML Version 1.2" />) was first proposed by Clark Evans in 2001,<ref>{{cite web |url=https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/sml-dev/conversations/topics/4710 |title=YAML Draft 0.1 |last=Evans |first=Clark |date=May 11, 2001 |publisher=Yahoo! Tech groups: sml-dev |access-date=2019-03-21 |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20010603012942/http://groups.yahoo.com/group/sml-dev/message/4710|archivedate=2001-06-03}}</ref> who designed it together with Ingy döt Net<ref name="yaml_org_about">{{cite web |url=https://yaml.org/about.html |title=YAML Ain't Markup Language: About |website=YAML.org |access-date=2019-05-29 |archive-date=2019-04-14 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190414205219/https://yaml.org/about.html |url-status=live }}</ref> and Oren Ben-Kiki.<ref name="yaml_org_about"/> Originally YAML was said to mean ''Yet Another Markup Language'',<ref name="YAML_spec_2001_08_01">{{cite web |title=Yet Another Markup Language (YAML) 1.0 |url=https://yaml.org/spec/history/2001-08-01.html |website=YAML.org |access-date=2019-05-29 |archive-date=2019-04-14 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190414205247/https://yaml.org/spec/history/2001-08-01.html |url-status=live }}</ref> because it was released in an era that saw a proliferation of markup languages for presentation and connectivity (HTML, XML, SGML, etc.). Its initial name was intended as a [[tongue-in-cheek]] reference<ref name="YAML_name_orig_2011_08_06">{{cite web |title=Yet Another Markup Language (YAML) 1.0 |url=https://stackoverflow.com/questions/6968366/if-yaml-aint-markup-language-what-is-it |website=stackoverflow.com |access-date=2021-03-24 |archive-date=2021-04-23 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210423212857/https://stackoverflow.com/questions/6968366/if-yaml-aint-markup-language-what-is-it |url-status=live }}</ref> to the technology landscape, referencing its purpose as a [[markup language]] with the [[yet another]] construct, but it was then repurposed as ''YAML Ain't Markup Language'', a [[recursive acronym]], to distinguish its purpose as data-oriented, rather than document markup.<!-- see mail list thread started by Brian Ingerson on 2001-05-19 https://sourceforge.net/p/yaml/mailman/message/5189450/ with name suggestion by Oren Ben-Kiki https://sourceforge.net/p/yaml/mailman/message/5189460/ -->