Definitions for "yaws "
A disease, occurring in the Antilles and in Africa, characterized by yellowish or reddish tumors, of a contagious character, which, in shape and appearance, often resemble currants, strawberries, or raspberries. There are several varieties of this disease, variously known as frambœsia, pian, verrugas, and crab-yaws.
An infectious nonvenereal disease caused by a spirochete, Treponema pertenue. Mainly found in humid, equatorial regions. Symptoms include febrile disturbances, rheumatism, eruption of tubercles with a caseous crust on hands, feet, face and external genitals. SYN: bouba; frambesia; tropica; parangi; pian.
an infectious tropical disease resembling syphilis in its early stages; marked by red skin eruptions and ulcerating lesions
Yaws (Yet another webserver) is a webserver written in Erlang. Yaws can be embedded into other Erlang-based applications.
Yaws is a WWW technology with capabilities similar to the combination of Apache with PHP and a database. Yaws runs faster, with smaller footprint, higher scalability, and higher reliability. Subjectively speaking, it uses a more beautiful technique to generate dynamic pages than other similar technologies.
Yaws is a small fast and beautiful HTTP