Among the tiny graves on Blocker Hill, the wind echoes with the tortured cries of computer programmers. Beneath the eight grave markers, and perhaps in a rumored unmarked grave nearby, lie reams of paper printouts of code for software that has left this mortal operating system.
The cemetery is a quirky tradition among the programmers at LexisNexis, which provides online legal and business information. Rather than simply delete programs that are retired or replaced, they print them out for a proper send-off — not always with fond regards.
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We used to have a shrine to the Delphi Gods, where we would leave code printouts overnight in the hope that we could return the following day to find all bugs fixed and carefully annotated.
The Gods never did smile on us favourably.
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