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Christmas tree

Dear community, some time ago I saw a competition on StackExchange. It was about developing a scalable Christmas tree. Everyone was allowed to use the programming language he wanted. The competition is already 5 years old, but I like the results and the basic idea. So here’s a Christmas tree in ABAP (source code on GitHub via abapGit). Hope you like plain ASCII art πŸ™‚

By the way if there is some time left during christmas time, here are a few suggestions.

Visit TechnologyRadar from ThoughtWorks. A lot of interesting things to read about and a good source for further research (e.g. Chaos Katas).

To start a little discussion, have a look at TIOBE Index.Β COBOL and Fortran are ahead of ABAP? That reminds me of the story of the COBOL COWBOYS πŸ˜‰

For those with a heart for computer games, check the Demo of Forge. It’s a sequel to Loom and made by a fan project. I think the magic within the game fits a little bit to the Christmas time.

And if it should be something with ABAP, then maybe take a look at the open source projects available with abapGit.

 

I wish you a nice Christmas time

Michael

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      Author's profile photo Lars Breddemann
      Lars Breddemann

      Thumbs up for the Loom reference. Good ol' times those were.

      Author's profile photo Michael Keller
      Michael Keller
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      Really true. I quite often surprised what other programmers do in their free time. They really make many people happy πŸ™‚

       

      Author's profile photo Peter Inotai
      Peter Inotai

      Thanks. It's very cool. πŸ™‚

      BTW what happened to the snowman? πŸ™‚

      Author's profile photo Michael Keller
      Michael Keller
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      Bad elves ... πŸ˜‰Β  These are the surprises when looking in the source code.

      Author's profile photo Peter Inotai
      Peter Inotai

      πŸ™‚

      Author's profile photo Christian Guenter
      Christian Guenter

      Hi Michael,

      I fail to install the repo. I get this dump. I think it’s most likely due to the missing abapgit.xml file.

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      I submitted a pull request πŸ˜‰

      Best regards,

      Christian

      Author's profile photo Michael Keller
      Michael Keller
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      Fixed with your help πŸ˜‰ Many thanks.

       

      Author's profile photo Enno Wulff
      Enno Wulff

      Let it snow, let it snow, let it snow... β™ͺβ™« πŸ™‚

      Maybe it's time to bring moria.exe to #abapGit... πŸ˜‰

      CPP sources are already there: https://github.com/dungeons-of-moria/umoria

       

      Author's profile photo Michael Keller
      Michael Keller
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      It's not easy to write games in ABAP but moria should work πŸ˜‰

      Author's profile photo Enno Wulff
      Enno Wulff

      Your christmas tree reminds me to send a xmas update to my customers:

      http://abap.ninja/enhancing-any-abap-program/

      πŸ˜€

      Author's profile photo Michael Keller
      Michael Keller
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      It's always a question of how to show bad news. A pony is far better than a nuclear explosion ... πŸ˜‰