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ABAP

proprietary programming language of the software company SAP, for programming commercial applications in the SAP environment
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ABAP

Summary

ABAP is a high-level programming language[1]. ABAP draws 563 Wikipedia views per month (high_level_programming_language category, ranking #1 of 8).[2]

Key Facts

  • ABAP was influenced by Q131140[3].
  • ABAP's instance of is recorded as high-level programming language[4].
  • ABAP's developer is recorded as SAP[5].
  • ABAP's copyright license is recorded as proprietary license[6].
  • 1983 marks the founding of ABAP[7].
  • ABAP's official website is recorded as http://scn.sap.com/community/abap[8].
  • ABAP's official name is recorded as {'lang': 'de', 'text': 'Allgemeiner Berichts-Aufbereitungs-Prozessor'}[9].
  • ABAP's official name is recorded as {'lang': 'en', 'text': 'Advanced Business Application Programming'}[10].
  • ABAP's Stack Exchange tag is recorded as https://stackoverflow.com/tags/abap[11].
  • ABAP's short name is recorded as {'lang': 'mul', 'text': 'ABAP'}[12].
  • ABAP's user manual URL is recorded as https://help.sap.com/doc/abapdocu_latest_index_htm/[13].
  • ABAP's programming paradigm is recorded as object-oriented programming[14].
  • ABAP's programming paradigm is recorded as structured programming[15].
  • ABAP's programming paradigm is recorded as imperative programming[16].
  • ABAP's typing discipline is recorded as static typing[17].
  • ABAP's typing discipline is recorded as strong typing[18].
  • ABAP's typing discipline is recorded as safe typing[19].
  • ABAP's typing discipline is recorded as nominative typing[20].

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Designation and Status

ABAP's instance of is recorded as high-level programming language[4].

History and Context

1983 marks the founding of ABAP[7].

Why It Matters

ABAP draws 563 Wikipedia views per month (high_level_programming_language category, ranking #1 of 8).[2] ABAP has Wikipedia articles in 25 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[21] ABAP is known by 19 alternative names across languages and contexts.[22]

Related Entities

high-level programming language SAP

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Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [21] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [22] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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