SAP ABAP

SAP ABAP is used by developers to develop the SAP R3 Platform.
It is a simple language that is easy to learn when it comes to programming.
It allows you to choose from procedural and object-oriented programming.
It also helps SAP customers to improve their SAP-based applications.
It allows you to create custom reports and interfaces.
ABAP language is quite easy for programmers. However, it is not a right tool that can be used by non-programmers.

History of SAP ABAP

ABAP is a 4/GL( Fourth generation) language developed in the 1980s.
ABAP becomes a language for developing a program for the client-server, which was first released in the year 1992.
In the year 1999, SAP introduced an object-oriented extension known as ABAP Objects
In 2006, 7.0 version released which offer switch framework feature
In, 2012, The version released with Table expressions feature
In 2015, with version 7.5 start supporting Open SQL expressions.
With version 7.52 in 2017, virtual sorting of the internal table feature introduced.

SAP ABAP program is either an executable unit or a library, which is a reusable code. However, it is not separately enforceable.

ABAP executable programs are divided into two types: