Question

These were the first two words in the full name of the Perl conference until around 2017, when it just became The Perl Conference. In 2004, Koichi Sasada implemented a Ruby VM whose name began with these two words, which became standard as of Ruby 1.9. The GNU project Bison descended from an influential (-5[1])compiler created (15[1])by Stephen (15[1])C. Johnson whose name begins with these two words; that “compiler compiler” produces a shift-reduce parser (15[1])in C. The most popular Russian search engine has a name that combines these two words with (*) “indexer”. These two words began the original name of a “Markup Language” based on JSON (“JAY-sawn”) that typically uses only whitespace indentation to denote structure. These two words are followed by “Hierarchical Officious Oracle” in the backronym for a company founded by Jerry Yang. For 10 points, name these two words abbreviated “YA” that suggest something is not original. ■END■ (10[1])

ANSWER: yet another [prompt on “YA” with “what does that stand for?”]
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Buzzes

PlayerTeamOpponentBuzz PositionValue
Kevin YeWe Bought a Complexity Zoo StoryDianetics for Diabetics53-5
Vishwa ShanmugamMacro Editorsa neural-net processor; a thinking machine5515
Rob CarsonEdwardian Manifestation of All Colonial SinsEight Megabytes And Constantly Swapping5715
Dan Niplaying emacs while my parents are arguingscreaming into the public static void main(String[] args)7315
Seth EbnerDianetics for DiabeticsWe Bought a Complexity Zoo Story14910