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ABAP

Procedural Language

ABAP (Advanced Business Application Programming) is a programming language created by the German software company SAP, first released in 1983, used for developing business applications within the SAP R/2 and later SAP R/3 and S/4HANA enterprise resource planning systems. ABAP was originally a purely procedural, report-generation language embedded within SAP's own runtime environment, and later versions, beginning with ABAP Objects introduced in 2000, added object-oriented programming features while retaining full compatibility with SAP's existing procedural code base.

Facts
Classification
Typing Discipline
Statically Typed 1
Typing Discipline
Strongly Typed 1
License
Proprietary (Closed Source) 1
First Released
1983 1
Connections

Follows Typing Discipline

Entity-backed identity for the typing discipline value this language already carries as an enum fact, resolved to a concept entity by an explicit value-to-entity map (phase 3 bucket conversion, docs\design_entity_backed_browse_buckets_20260928.md). The enum fact itself stays on the entity unchanged.

Entity-backed identity for the typing discipline value this language already carries as an enum fact, resolved to a concept entity by an explicit value-to-entity map (phase 3 bucket conversion, docs\design_entity_backed_browse_buckets_20260928.md). The enum fact itself stays on the entity unchanged.

In Field

Source ABAP (Wikipedia)

Influenced By

Source Wikidata: ABAP

Licensed Under

Entity-backed identity for the license enum value this item already carries, resolved to a software license concept by an explicit value-to-entity map (phase 3 bucket conversion, docs\design_entity_backed_browse_buckets_20260928.md). The license fact itself stays on the item unchanged.

Sources
1. Wikidata: ABAP
  • Wikidata Q380523, class allow-list match (w-wdresolver-0926)
  • Wikidata Q380523 P275 (license)
  • Wikidata Q380523 P7078 (typing discipline)
  • Influenced By: COBOL
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ABAP (Wikipedia)
In Field: Programming Language Theory, Lead paragraphView the Source
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