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What was SAP's first programming language?

AslanCakirdogan — Sun, 14 Aug 2022 14:38:37 GMT

Hi folks!

A question has been on my mind for a few days. Maybe you don't care, but it's just curiosity 🙂 I googled but couldn't find a satisfactory answer. The question is: what was SAP's first programming language? In other words, with which programming language was SAP developed when ABAP was not available? Because we know that ABAP was founded in the 1980s, while SAP was founded in 1972. Does anyone know the answer to the question?

Re: What was SAP's first programming language?

Sandra_Rossi — Mon, 15 Aug 2022 16:18:59 GMT

No idea. I guess SAP main goal was to create ERP software for mainframe (R/1) and has probably used an existing language like COBOL.

Re: What was SAP's first programming language?

emanuel_klenner — Thu, 18 Aug 2022 11:33:05 GMT

SAP's R/1 and R/2 releases were built using the Assembly language.

Re: What was SAP's first programming language?

foessleitner — Fri, 19 Aug 2022 06:46:25 GMT

But in R/2 SAP started with ABAP and e.g. logical Databases.

Re: What was SAP's first programming language?

emanuel_klenner — Fri, 19 Aug 2022 07:01:54 GMT

That is right Johann. In R/2 ABAP came along and you could actually call ABAP code from within the Assembly language modules that R/2 was written in.