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<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>YAFIYGI</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="../../jargon.css" type="text/css"/><meta name="generator" content="DocBook XSL Stylesheets V1.61.0"/><link rel="home" href="../index.html" title="The Jargon File"/><link rel="up" href="../Y.html" title="Y"/><link rel="previous" href="YABA.html" title="YABA"/><link rel="next" href="yak-shaving.html" title="yak shaving"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">YAFIYGI</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="YABA.html">Prev</a><EFBFBD></td><th width="60%" align="center">Y</th><td width="20%" align="right"><EFBFBD><a accesskey="n" href="yak-shaving.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="YAFIYGI"/><dt xmlns="" id="YAFIYGI"><b>YAFIYGI</b>: <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="pronunciation">/yaf<61>ee<65>y@<40>gee/</span>, <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="grammar">adj.</span></dt></dt><dd><p> [coined in response to WYSIWYG] Describes the command-oriented
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ed/vi/nroff/TeX style of word processing or other user interface, the
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opposite of <a href="../W/WYSIWYG.html"><i class="glossterm">WYSIWYG</i></a>. Stands for “<span class="quote">You asked
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for it, you got it</span>”, because what you actually asked for is often
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not apparent until long after it is too late to do anything about it. Used
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to denote perversity (“<span class="quote">Real Programmers use YAFIYGI
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tools...and <span class="emphasis"><em>like</em></span> it!</span>”) or, less often, a
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necessary tradeoff (“<span class="quote">Only a YAFIYGI tool can have full programmable
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flexibility in its interface.</span>”).</p><p>This precise sense of “<span class="quote">You asked for it, you got it</span>”
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seems to have first appeared in Ed Post's classic parody <i class="citetitle">Real
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Programmers don't use Pascal</i> (see
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<a href="../R/Real-Programmer.html"><i class="glossterm">Real Programmer</i></a>s); the acronym is a more recent invention.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="YABA.html">Prev</a><EFBFBD></td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../Y.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"><EFBFBD><a accesskey="n" href="yak-shaving.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">YABA<EFBFBD></td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"><EFBFBD>yak shaving</td></tr></table></div></body></html>
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