What's SAP, and why's it worth $163B? (2020)

Re:What's SAP, and why's it worth $163B? (2020) by progfix on Friday September 09, 2022 @10:17AM (#32779544)

> 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

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Re:What's SAP, and why's it worth $163B? (2020) by starik36 on Friday September 09, 2022 @03:14PM (#32783612)

Wow. 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.

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Re:What's SAP, and why's it worth $163B? (2020) by j-krieger on Saturday September 10, 2022 @10:09AM (#32790790)

Some 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

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Re:What's SAP, and why's it worth $163B? (2020) by flavius29663 on Friday September 09, 2022 @10:34AM (#32779757)

For 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.

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Re:What's SAP, and why's it worth $163B? (2020) by bhandziuk on Friday September 09, 2022 @11:19AM (#32780258)

Wow, that's a real landmine

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Re:What's SAP, and why's it worth $163B? (2020) by j-krieger on Saturday September 10, 2022 @10:08AM (#32790772)

Oh my god

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