It looks and behaves like a normal string, except in the database.

An interesting edge-case in ABAP.

Since ABAP has garbage collection, most of the time just clearing references is enough to dispose of resources. Sometimes, however, a close( ) call is also required.

The main reason to have a static type system in a programming language is that the compiler can catch your mistakes without having to execute the code. In ABAP, even this is not so straightforward.

In addition to “Make Illegal States Unrepresentable,” another concept that I picked from Seemann’s book was “Cyclomatic Complexity.”

Having finally figured out what the difference between a message type and a basic type is in SAP IDocs, another question came to my mind: which IDoc basic types are compatible?

A small fable of what is lost when web services are the default option for SAP integrations.

On the topic of APIs and Poka-Yoke:

Lambda functions – also known as anonymous functions – are a common and useful feature of programming languages.