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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.

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