> 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.
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.
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
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.
