What is the name of the style found in (e.g.) ISC BIND9:

* https://www.zytrax.com/books/dns/ch6/#master

* https://bind9.readthedocs.io/en/latest/manpages.html#named-c...

ISC-style? (E/A)BNF-ish?

Personally I like (a) the open/close braces for better stanza navigation, (b) all statements/lines ending with semicolon.

(Something similar was used in (now-EOL) ISC DCHPd, and they've moved to "extended JSON" for their new DHCP server, KEA.)

I've always had a weird fondness for the apache configuration format.

It's a nice mix of syntax that looks like what it does and general support.

It's probably stockholm syndrome.