I was searching for the most payed programming languages, and I found that none of the lists contained ABAP (language of SAP).<p>I asked a friend who is a head-hunter and according to him companies paying a "fortune" to ABAP-programmers (if they could find any).<p>How well-known is SAP in the USA?
> How well-known is SAP in the USA?<p>Extremely.<p>SAP runs in almost every industrial, manufacturing and consumer goods company in the US (and around the world).<p>ABAP is an important skill to those companies running SAP (in particular: running SAP ERP, because ABAP is not the stack for SAP's other products). But unlike Java and .NET, you will never see companies hiring ABAP programmers in the dozens, because the ERP platform is driven by extensive configuration rules rather than just coding.<p>ABAP is not the tool to drive major custom development - and chances are, such large-scale custom development has already been done in the early 2000s and now they are all in support mode.