What is ABAP

Dear Experts,
Could anybody please explain what is ABAP??
Regards,
Deva.

Hi,
ABAP (Advanced Business Application Programming) is a high level programming language created by the German software company SAP. It is currently positioned as the language for programming SAP's Web Application Server, part of its NetWeaver platform for building business applications. Its syntax is somewhat similar to COBOL.
The ABAP programming language was originally used by SAP developers to develop the SAP R/3 platform. It was also intended to be used by SAP customers to enhance SAP applications customers can add custom reports and interfaces, and enhance user experience, with ABAP programming. This 4GL is fairly easy to learn for programmers but is too complex for ordinary users. High-level programming skills are still required to create ABAP programs.
ABAP remains the language for creating programs for the client-server R/3 system, which SAP first released in 1992. As computer hardware evolved through the 1990s, more and more of SAP's applications and systems were written in ABAP. By 2001, all but the most basic functions were written in ABAP. In 1999, SAP released an object-oriented extension to ABAP called ABAP Objects, along with R/3 release 4.5.
SAP's most recent development platform, NetWeaver, supports both ABAP and Java.
Regards,
Ferry Lianto

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At selection-screen output.
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How to configure it?
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