angett

Angett is a fictional programming language created as an educational tool to illustrate core principles of compiler design and language implementation. It is not used in production software and has no official specification outside teaching resources. The name Angett is a stylized form chosen by its authors to evoke the idea of analysis and generation in a compact form.

Design goals and core features. Angett emphasizes readability and a small feature set to make the compiler pipeline transparent. It provides static typing with basic types (int, bool, string), compound types such as arrays and structs, and support for functions and closures. The language includes optional type inference, simple generics, and first-class functions. It uses braces-based blocks and a modest syntax designed to minimize ambiguity for learners.

History and usage. Angett appears in a number of introductory textbooks and online tutorials as a sandbox language for demonstrating lexical analysis, parsing, symbol tables, and intermediate representations. In teaching contexts, instructors implement toy compilers that translate Angett code into a bytecode for a tiny virtual machine or to an intermediate form for analysis.

Compiler pipeline. Typical resources present a pipeline: lexer tokenizes source, parser builds an AST, semantic analyzer resolves types and scopes, optimizer applies small transformations, and a code generator targets a VM or IR. The language is chosen for its small surface area, which keeps the illustration accessible.

Legacy and reception. In educational resources, Angett is used to illustrate compiler concepts and to practice implementing language features within a manageable scope.