Is ABAP considered "good" ?

I have been learning ABAP with the NetWeaver trial for a week or so now
and I am frankly shocked by this platform.
There are some good ideas here but they are outweighed by bad ideas and bad execution!
I cannot see that it is possible to create high quality software using this system.
The SAP development tools themselves are terrible - the applications created with them even worse.
Does anybody consider this platform to be "good" ?
Moderator message - Moved to the correct forum
Edited by: Rob Burbank on Jun 7, 2010 5:34 PM

it is interesting to learn ABAP - it is so different - like an alien software
but the way it does things rings so many alarm bells
little things like binding screen controls to abap programs based on the name of variables
where is the validation and type safety?
where is the dependency tracking?
what happens when you have a typo - silent error!
so much of ABAP seems to be a bodge up - like things I have done as a developer
and thought to myself "well if it works it works who cares right?"
but those sort of approaches can lead to chaos
and weird syntax like:
DESCRIBE TABLE itab LINES fill
urgh! that is horrible - like so many ABAP constructs - they just make it up as they go along!
and PAI event handlers based on ... you guessed it ... strings again!
case OK_CODE.
when 'SOME STRING TYPED INTO A GUI TOOL SOMEWHERE'.
that is just not acceptable for so many reasons
oh yes - and the OK screen element - just sits there until you give it a name - what is that?
I was hoping to learn something from SAP - but SAP could learn more from me - and I'm just an average developer
lock objects generating function modules that have to be called ... using another string literal!
call function 'enqueue_is_this_a_joke'
and I can see no way to validate that locking is implemented correctly - got to read the code?
no way of checking that COMMIT WORK only affects records that are locked ?
the whole approach is fragile and opens the door to a thousand subtle mistakes
first SAP apps go live at work soon - I will enjoy the fireworks

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