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  • Have you looked at the Lisps / Scheme / Racket yet? Racket in particular makes it quite nice to go #lang blah at the top of the file and change the parsing or interpretation entirely.

    For example all the documentation pages and guides are written in scribble:

    https://docs.racket-lang.org/scribble/getting-started.html#(part._first-example)

    #lang scribble/base
     
    @title{On the Cookie-Eating Habits of Mice}
     
    If you give a mouse a cookie, he's going to ask for a
    glass of milk.
    

    And it has an entire document markup language created in it, which can output pdf or html. But you can still use @ syntax to drop in racket code to compute values. Or create templates.

    I even implemented a #lang which took assembly directly (and interpreted it, it was for a class).

    So if you are really after full control, you should study Lisps and their macro systems.