Developed by SAP for use with its own software platform, ABAP has gone
through a couple of evolutions and is currently the key to developing SAP
applications for the Web via NetWeaver.
If your software is intended to work with SAP, you will need ABAP programmers,
who are plentiful but very expensive ($1000/day is not uncommon). If you are not
working with SAP, you’ll never need to worry about ABAP.
Now an Adobe product (coming to them from Macromedia who acquired it from
original developers the Allaire brothers), Cold Fusion is a very popular tag-based
middleware development language used exclusively for websites and web
applications.
Cold Fusion can be made to do a wide variety of things from a software
standpoint, and anyone who is comfortable with HTML development will find Cold
Fusion pretty easy to learn.
Cold Fusion programmers are plentiful and as the learning curve is very low,
pricing should be competitive.
Last, and oldest, of the programming languages Fortran was developed in the
mid 1950s by IBM for use in scientific computing, where it remains popular even
now. Originally a procedural language, an object-oriented version of Fortran was
recently released.
Finding Programming Resources
Once you have an idea of what you want your software to do and what it might
be “made of” you can start looking for programming resources.
The Internet makes this wonderfully easy.
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