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ABAP (Advanced Business Application Programming, originally Allgemeiner Berichts-Aufbereitungs-Prozessor, German for "general report creation processor") is a high-level programming language created by the German software company SAP

ABAP is the programming language of the SAP R/3 system. It is a proprietary language that is used to write both the fundamental SAP R/3 system itself and the standardized business applications that run on top of this system. It can be used for customer extensions of the system or entirely new software applications as well. The on-line language reference is available at no cost from the SAP Help Portal. Another great community - almost as rewarding as StackOverflow - is the SAP Community Network.

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Worth it to Learn an Archaic Language?

Possible Duplicate: Is COBOL still worth learning? One of my better college professors often talked about the advantages of learning an archaic language (COBOL or SAP ABAP for example) in one's free time because of the advantages it provides when…
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How to convince "old" co-workers of the merits of OO for certain applications

I am working as SAP developer, where in many cases you have traditional requirements to applications (reports): Read in some data from the database or a file Do some magic with that data, e.g. do various calculations Write out the results into the…
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Role of an architect in SAP ABAP or SAP BI projects

Given that SAP modules are architected and managed by SAP itself. However, small changes are possible at the customer's end. How can an ABAPer on the client's side take the role of an architect at SAP that designs SAP modules? So what does an…
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What are the guidelines for using attributes vs. passing local variables along from method call to method call?

What are the OOP best practice guidelines - in general or specific for ABAP - for using attributes to store data versus just passing it along as method parameters. I'm having a hard time deciding when to do what and am also interested to learn more…
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