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Rob Smeets, Belgium: The external link to ABAP on SAP's pages is not working... This is the correct URL: http://sdn.sap.com/irj/sdn/developerareas/abap
"ABAP (Advanced Business Application Programming)"
"ABAP is an abbreviation of Allgemeiner Berichtsaufbereitungsprozessor"
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The first one. It used to be the second one. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 169.145.3.13 ( talk • contribs).
It appears to be a virtual machine, why is not called as such in the article? Mathmo Talk 02:14, 7 August 2007 (UTC)
The article includes a statement to the effect that the ABAP Dictionary enforces referential integrity. I believe it doesn't, so I'll change this in a while unless anyone objects. 86.31.158.130 19:05, 9 September 2007 (UTC)
This is huge -- it seems more like a programming manual than an encyclopedia article. This also leads me to wonder where all this material came from -- is this definitely copyvio-free?-- NapoliRoma 18:44, 22 September 2007 (UTC)
Article is definatedly too long, also it looks a bit overpostivie about ABAP. Why isn't there a criticism section (like in i.e. Java or C# articles)? There are several annoying featues of abap and none are mentioned(for. ex. the largest DB field is 64K (no BLOB nor anything))?. "It is a special strength of ABAP that you can define a great variety of data types and objects that span the spectrum from very elementary data types to very complex and dynamic types." - how is it a special strength? Cerainly not compared to general purpose languages like c/c++. It could be compared to PL/SQL, but the whole statement is unclear. The "advantages over contemporary languages" are also dubious - most of them are described in an insubstancial way. For example how is exception handling an advantage over Pascal/C++/C#/Java (it actually works the same way)? Again, maybe it's an advantage over some application-specyfic languages, but the title just says "over languages". Same thing: how is the concept of internal tables "unique" - how is it better than for example generic containers? All this looks as if SAP had some1 write a nice article about their product. Wheather it is so or not the article needs shortening, and is definatedly too one-sided. 79.184.126.8 ( talk) 00:46, 18 February 2008 (UTC)
Mind you, the article is also wrong in that it states that there is no such thing as an array in ABAP. An array - "work area" - is the basis for a table. The author must have been a novice programmer who had never defined an array directly or as a structure in the data dictionary. Furthermore, surely a "strength" of ABAP is its incorporation of openSQL, and thus its manipulation of mass data in general. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 72.255.97.205 ( talk) 00:49, 13 March 2012 (UTC)
How about using fold-outs (or what are they called; that you can expand and contract; show and hide)? At least the examples and specific features could be hidden away. -- Sigmundur ( talk) 08:48, 20 January 2010 (UTC)
I think this is something that is really too specific, and rather personal - perhaps one could say not a NPOV! Therefore, I've removed it. —Preceding
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This article was proposed for deletion on the grounds of unfixable original research. I deprodded as it seemed to me that a comparison between the two was reasonable, but I don't know enough about computer programming to properly assess and fix the article. Any assessments of it and editing would be welcome. Fences& Windows 16:05, 8 August 2009 (UTC)
ABAP is a language only for SAP applications. It can not be used for other developements. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 122.166.1.187 ( talk) 05:06, 10 February 2010 (UTC)
I want to make a customer table and how a customer table will autamatically updated —Preceding unsigned comment added by 122.160.52.98 ( talk) 09:03, 16 April 2010 (UTC)
I'm working on a cleanup of the ABAP article (I'm not the original author but I had noticed that much of the original article was obsolete or contained questionable information). As part of that work I have marked following sections for deletion:
Mark Mergaerts -- 84.194.172.227 ( talk) 14:13, 9 August 2010 (UTC)
As suggested on this discussion page before, I think part of this page is copyright violation. I have added the teplate (I don't know if correctly). -- 90.180.143.210 ( talk) 22:09, 7 July 2011 (UTC)
Link: "ABAP History". SAP-technical.com - AVIRA Reports a script malware — Preceding unsigned comment added by 79.248.123.186 ( talk) 19:35, 24 March 2013 (UTC)
Much of this article reads like an instruction manual and could use cleaning up, probably including removal of much of the material. The Syntax section in particular seems to be just a straightforward tutorial with no encyclopedic content at all. -- Fyrael ( talk) 15:14, 3 November 2016 (UTC)
Can someone explain to me how the following can be true: "It is extracted from the base computing languages Java, C, C++ and Python."
Given that the language predates both Java and Python, in addition to having almost nothing in common with C and C++.