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> ABAP, the programming language of SAP, is quite nice nowadays I took a brief look at the ABAP wikipedia article and this insanity [1] stood out to me. I thin
by progfix 4y ago
> ABAP, the programming language of SAP, is quite nice nowadays
I took a brief look at the ABAP wikipedia article and this insanity [1] stood out to me.
I think after a decade of SAP you are too brain-washed to give an objective opinion anymore.
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ABAP#Spaces https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ABAP#Spaces
- flavius29663 4y agoFor a regular software developer, ABAP is pure insanity. But it has powerful data manipulation procedures, it's easy to just create and manipulate all your data tables in any way you want.
- bhandziuk 4y agoWow, that's a real landmine
- starik36 4y agoWow. That is pretty insane. I hope there is a tooling to surface a warning when it detects this. But lots of domain specific languages have idiosyncrasies. The Apex language used to program Salesforce is a half-implemented clone of Java from a decade ago. And they didn't cherry pick the best parts.
- selfmodruntime 4y agoSome companies will be forever scarred by the past trend to create an entirely new programming language for their product when an existing one could‘ve been entirely sufficient
- selfmodruntime 4y agoOh my god