ABOUT

YAML^(tm) is an international collaboration to make a data serialization language which is both human readable and computationally powerful. The founding members of YAML are Brian Ingerson (author of the Perl module Data::Denter), Clark Evans, and Oren Ben-Kiki. YAML emerged from the union of two efforts. The first was Brian Ingerson's need for a serialization format for Inline, this resulted in his Data::Denter module. The second, was the joint work of Oren Ben-Kiki Clark Evans on simplifying XML within the sml-dev group. YAML was first publicized with a <?xmlhack?> article on 12 May 2001. Oren and Clark's vision for YAML was very similar to Brian's Data::Denter, and vice versa, thus a few days later they teamed up and YAML was born.

Since the initial founding, many additional people have come on board and have made YAML a serious contender for your data serialization needs. This includes Neil Watkiss, who is working on libyaml, Rolf Veen who is working on a Java implementation, Steve Howell who is working with Brian on applications for YAML, Brian Quinlin, and Andrew Kurn who is keeping us honest.