Difference between BASIS AND ABAP

We can say that BASIS is a middleware between ABAP/4 (Advanced Business Application Programming) and the computer Operating system. Instead BASIS reads ABAP/4 code and interprets it into Operating system instructions. ABAP/4 programs do not access O/S functions directly. Instead they use the BASIS function to perform the file input/output operation and display data in windows. ABAP/4 programs cannot run directly on an Operating system (like Windows). It requires set of programs (collectively known as BASIS) to load and interpret its input and output. Without BASIS programs ABAP/4 programs cannot run

Basis is a business application software integrated solution. Simply, Basis is the administration of the SAP system.

It's a piece of middleware which links the application with the database and the operating system. Basis is most commonly associated with the GUI interface to the SAP, and the Basis administrator is an SAP professional who is responsible for configuring the SAP environment, including the GUI screens and SAP application servers.

What is the role of abapers? What is the Work Bench? Abaper is a application programmer who retrieves the data from the database and show it to the enduser with the help of report..out of three layers of SAP the abaper position is on Application Layer in which SAP programs are develop and then transported to the Production server...

Workbench... The ABAP Workbench contains several tools that allow you to edit specific repository objects. like ABAP Editor , Menu PAinter etc...