What Language is SAP written in?

[Former Member]

Hi All,

Can anyone plaese tell me in what language is SAP written in. Not SAP coding language, but the source code of SAP...

[markus_doehr2]

Please define what you mean with "SAP" in this case.

SAP has > 100 different applications - about which one are you talking?

Markus

[Former Member]

As Markus Said, SAP is a company, not a software.

A very generic answer for SAP softwares based on Netweaver could be :

C++ for the Abap kernel

Abap for tha Abap stack

Java for the Java stack

Olivier

[former_member583013]

Agree with Olivier -:)

As per my knowledge...The whole R/3 system is actually builded 90% ABAP and 10% C++ -;)

So...They used ABAP to build the ABAP compiler...Weird isn't it?

Greetings,

Blag.

[former_member181995]

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>The whole R/3 system is actually builded 90% ABAP and 10% C++ -;)

...But my question is In which Language ABAP is written?

Cheers,

Amit.

[markus_doehr2]

> So...They used ABAP to build the ABAP compiler...Weird isn't it?

Well - Java does the same javac is an application running in the VM (well - with native libraries written in C/C++ of course)

Markus

[Former Member]

Hi Alvaro,

>They used ABAP to build the ABAP compiler...Weird isn't it?

Well this is very common : C compilers are written in C language.

I've already compiled the Gnu C compiler (gcc) with itself on Linux !

Some people says that it is a criteria for a real programming language.

Regards,

Olivier

[Former Member]

Hi,

You already got the answer : ABAP is written in C++.

In fact, ABAP bytecode (compiled) is interpreted by the C++ code of the kernel.

SAP, with ABAP, used the virtual machine a long time before this concept was re-discovered by the Sun Java folks...

Regards,

Olivier

[Former Member]

....... isn't the answer 'German' ?

[matt]

Judging by some of the comments in really old code - Schäbisch.

Edited by: Matt on Nov 26, 2008 9:40 PM - replaced the typo that was there for 30 milliseconds before I corrected it, so that Anton's message makes sense.

[Former Member]

well, schäbisch to me sounds more like a coding style (which of course is not to be found in ABAP code). What you mean is schWäbisch.

cheers, anton

[Former Member]

oh, this a good example of how the possibility to edit postings once they are already sent renders the online conversation sometimes meaningless.

for the record: the posting I replied to contained a typo which I was making a (not so bad I think) joke of...

[jurjen_heeck]

> the posting I replied to contained a typo which I was making a (not so bad I think) joke of...

That'll teach you to quote your victim

[ThomasZloch]

> That'll quote you to teach your victim 

These quotes can be altered though as desired...schäbig, schäbig

[Former Member]

nothing here.

Like this? )

[Former Member]

>....... isn't the answer 'German' ?

Of course ! I forgot this is the Coffee Corner !

[matt]

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> oh, this a good example of how the possibility to edit postings once they are already sent renders the online conversation sometimes meaningless.
> 
> for the record: the posting I replied to contained a typo which I was making a (not so bad I think) joke of...

error reinstated.