10 commandments of a true ABAPer
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Thou shall write the actual code for 1 hour and spend next 5 hours on commenting and aligning the code.
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Thou shall blame thy every confusing code snippet to the “best practice”.
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Thou shall be confused all the time and don’t forget to confuse thine friends all the time.
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Thou shall copy thine friend’s code shamelessly. If it’s their, it’s thine!
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Thou shall ask too many people the same problem, get conflicting answers and then wonder who out of them is correct!
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Thou shall blame thy every failure on everything: the instructor, the mentor, the evaluator, the peer, the problem, the server, the ABAP, the SAP, the luck… everything except thee!
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Thou shall regularly take breaks from writing code to play bubble shooter or vice versa.
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Thou shall consider getting short dumps as a matter of pride. “What! You got just 3 short dumps? I got 7 today!”
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Thou shall screw all performance considerations while writing code and then screw the code to maximise performance.
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Thou shall spew verbal obscenities in thine local language on the creators of SAP for making thy life a living hell…