> 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.
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.
