unsigned long geek = random();

As a follow-up to yesterday’s post about ABAP documentation referencing Pink Floyd’s Careful with that Axe, Eugene, I decided to do some further digging. It seems that there are quite a few musical references in the documentation:

• concatenate - Louis Armstrong’s We have all the time in the World
• condense - Leonard Cohen’s Suzanne
• find - Neil Young and Crazy Horse’s Everybody Knows this is Nowhere
• replace and shift- Lyle Lovett’s I Know You Know
• search - Chuck Berry’s Roll Over Beethoven
• split - The Rolling Stones’ Mother’s Little Helper
• translate - Pink Floyd’s Careful with that Axe, Eugene

There are probably some other little gems in the documentation, but I’ll leave those for someone else to find

Spotted this gem in the ABAP documentation for the translate statement on a SAP WAS 6.40 system today:

After the conversion, the variable text contains “CAREFUL WITH THAT AXE, EUGENE”.
DATA text TYPE string.
text = `Careful with that Axe, Eugene`.
TRANSLATE text TO UPPER CASE.


I guess someone in Walldorf likes Pink Floyd