Talk:Comparison of ABAP and Java

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Sorry, but I don't think this article makes much sense. Comparing two programming languages with no common origin or apparent influence on each other will (of course) show differences without ends. The small things (like syntactical glue, e.g. ';' vs. '.') hardly matter; concepts would be much more important (see Comparison of programming languages), e.g. that both use some kind of VM that completely abstracts from the underlying OS, that ABAP totally depends on running on an RDBMS etc.. This might fit better in the actual ABAP article, to give some info on concepts and behaviour. And then there are some plain errors: DD types (to be used in ABAP) have been there much earlier, they probably had existed in R/2 for years, before R/3 even appeared. And to call ABAP an object oriented language isn't justified - you can write entire applications without ever using an object (well, newer SAP functions might only be available through objects). --Mopskatze 12:50, 30 September 2007 (UTC)