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YAML is a recursive acronym for "YAML Ain't Markup Language". YAML is a data serialization language that takes concepts from many languages such as XML, C, Python, and Perl and the email format RFC. YAML aims to be human-readable and computationally powerful. YAML was first proposed by Clark Evans, and implemented by himself, Brian Ingerson and Oren Ben-Kiki.

Bindings for YAML exist for the following languages: