In a project like this I look for a "related work" section (that shows you know the context and are at least not reinventing [square] wheels and have some reaso

In a project like this I look for a "related work" section (that shows you know the context and are at least not reinventing [square] wheels and have some reason why your thing is different/better than all the other things that do what your thing does already) and a formal grammar (that I can feed to a parser generator etc.).