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Subject: Naming Conventions

Date: 2009-07-06 06:19:27

From: PAUL HARDY Business Card

In regard to naming conventions, I would agree that this is important. You may ask why the vast majority of "customer" companies do not adhere to naming conventions. I suggest it may be because that when you look at standard SAP code there appears to be no sort of naming convention whatsoever. A gentlemen from Australia called Matt Harding once tried to establish a worldwide naming convention for ABAP code that would even be adopted by SAP itself. Sadly, this got nowhere.
I have been on two SAP training courses in ABAP, admittedly quite a few years ago, and in both cases the instructor said "we do not advise you on naming conventions, do whatever you want".

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Weblog:	Great Programmers will their Code to the New Guy
Subject:	Naming Conventions
Date:	2009-07-06 06:19:27
From:	PAUL HARDY Business Card


In regard to naming conventions, I would agree that this is important. You may ask why the vast majority of "customer" companies do not adhere to naming conventions. I suggest it may be because that when you look at standard SAP code there appears to be no sort of naming convention whatsoever. A gentlemen from Australia called Matt Harding once tried to establish a worldwide naming convention for ABAP code that would even be adopted by SAP itself. Sadly, this got nowhere. I have been on two SAP training courses in ABAP, admittedly quite a few years ago, and in both cases the instructor said "we do not advise you on naming conventions, do whatever you want".