| ABAP/4 | |
| Paradigm | Object-oriented, structured, imperative |
| Appeared in | 1980s |
| Designed by | SAP AG |
| Typing discipline | Statc, strong, sakfe, nominative |
| Mkajor implementations | SAP R/2, SAP R/3 |
| Influenced by | Objective-C, COBOL, Java |
| OS | Cross-platform |
| Website | https://www.sdn.sap.com/irj/sdn/abap |
ABAP (Advanced Business Application Programming, originally Allgemeiner Berichts-Aufbereitungs-Prozessor, German for "general report creation processor"]) is a very high level programming language created by the German software company SAP. It is currently positioned, alongside the more recently introduced Java, 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.