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Re:What's SAP, and why's it worth $163B? (2020) by avisser on Friday September 09, 2022 @10:51AM (#32779959)
> table and column names are German abbreviations too).

This was the craziest part of doing SAP development. (I'll admit this is an America-centric viewpoint.) But the codes to get to various screens were (to me) totally random. e.g. to create a purchase order, the code is ME21N. Only after 6 months, did my German boss let me in on the secret that all the codes "made sense" if you knew the German phrase for "purchase order" or whatever.

I guess it's fair for the world having to deal with .cfg .txt .exe and all the other English that's essential for modern computing.

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Re:What's SAP, and why's it worth $163B? (2020) by rvba on Friday September 09, 2022 @04:29PM (#32784519)
The transaction codes generally follow logic of similar stuff in same place.

But the table and column names are literal german abbreviations. E.g. table AUFK - "SAP Order master data" is named after "Auftrag" (=order).

Column "AUFART" = auftrag art = order type. And often more

When you go into the actual ABAP code of some transactions, it can have comments in German, made by programmers many years ago.

https://www.se80.co.uk/saptables/a/aufk/aufk.htm

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Re:What's SAP, and why's it worth $163B? (2020) by majewsky on Friday September 09, 2022 @05:02PM (#32784872)
At least it's still Latin characters. Just imagine if instead of ME21N you had to enter 請求.
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