Hmmm, I found an old repo of mine from 2010 where I implemented hoc. Well, hoc1, that is. And then I stopped. For some reason, this chapter never really sparked a lot of interest in me, apparently.

Only once did I ever have a need to use a tool like yacc: When writing a raytracer. I needed a simple language to describe the objects in the 3D scene. That might have been a great use of yacc/lex, but I didn’t know they existed back then and my program was written in Java anyway.

Maybe it’s because we have so many tools at hand these days. I don’t really feel a need to come up with a new language. And for data, we have JSON, XML, and this YAML abomination.