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YAChaL(tm)

So, what exactly did the link mean when I posted this term earlier?

Open source programmers have a perchant to create a program that duplicates to work of a similar program that already exists. These programmers continue to work on their program despite the fact that they may be ‘reinventing the wheel’. A few of these programmers acknowledge this fact in their title by calling their program, Yet Another Program. For example, YAPIG stands for Yet Another Php Image Gallery. Many other folks use Coppermine or similar programs, but for whatever reason, the programmer of YAPIG wanted to create his own.

lxy (Hebrew reads from right to left) is a Hebrew word meaning to wait or to hope for. For example in Psalm 130:5,

I wait for the LORD , my soul waits,
and in his word I put my hope.

As such, when you put the two together, you have my intended meaning. Expressed plainly, YAChaL(tm) means to hope for something that has already happened before. Specifically in the sentence of the post this is refined to mean “to hope for a leader that is just like the charasmatic leaders of old.”

Yes, it’s a bit of a stretch, but I couldn’t resist it.