A proper burial for old code

A little humor on this day, perhaps, in what the programmers at LexisNexis do with old code:

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 ... Rather than simply delete programs that are retired or replaced, they print them out for a proper send-off — not always with fond regards.

Workers had to "drive a stake" through the heart of a poorly performing program named CCI, which received an ignominious burial beneath an emblem of a pig.

[AP via Niall Kennedy]