Introduction to the ABAP Programming Language
ABAP stands for Advanced Business Application Programming. Before release 4.0 of SAP R/3, the language was known as ABAP/4 (the 4 meant it was a fourth-generation language). With release 4.0B, back in 1998, the name was changed to simply ABAP because, although the language maintains most of the best fourth-generation language features and previous syntax and keywords, many object-oriented features have been incorporated in a move to make it a fully capable object-oriented language.
ABAP is the programming language that SAP has used to develop all the SAP R/3 business modules and applications, including the system management functions. It is available to customers and developers to extend SAP functionality ...
Get SAP R/3 Handbook, Third Edition, 3rd Edition now with the O’Reilly learning platform.
O’Reilly members experience books, live events, courses curated by job role, and more from O’Reilly and nearly 200 top publishers.
