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Comment by Marco Alka on "What is the most horrible programming language or technology you have worked with?" | Hashnode

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Marco Alka

Software Engineer, Technical Consultant & Mentor

Oct 4, 2019

Wow, I love JS, because I can get things done fast, however for stable code, I usually go for TypeScript (which transpiles to JS).

The worst language I ever had to work with was ABAP. It feels like a DB query language overloaded with everything one needs for GUI and logic in the worst way possible. It's old and clunky, and I hate it. Luckily, I don't have to do anything in it anymore.

Emil Moe

Senior Data Engineer

Oct 4, 2019

Was it invented by an business/economy person? 😂 Like SAS, they just create shitty code standards and have a blind eye to more modern approaches, but every student at a business school thinks it's cool.

Marco Alka

Software Engineer, Technical Consultant & Mentor

Oct 4, 2019

Emil Moe Since ABAP is for SAP, it pretty sure was 😓

Emil Moe

Senior Data Engineer

Oct 4, 2019

When I worked at a university, business department, they all praised VBA (Excel programming) and thought if you could do that, you could be anything. Says a lot. You won't believe how much they tried to fit into an Excel "application".

(It's just Visual Basic with less features)

Paul Watts

Love life-long learning and sharing knowledge

Oct 9, 2019

Also when I was using ABAP (some years ago) part of the SAP schema was in English and part in German.

Had to keep translating from German to English.