Hello software, my old friend I've come to talk with you again
"Fools", said I, "You do not know Software like a cancer grows
Simon and Garfunkel were originally software developers in the 1960s and their early songs were rejected
because they had software themes.
This early version of "Sounds of Silence" shows that they had good insight into the software development
process...
Mounds Of Software
Artist: Simon & Garfunkel Album: Sounds Of Silence
Hello software, my old friend I've come to talk with you again Because a vision softly creeping Left
its seeds while I was sleeping And the vision that was planted in my brain Still remains Within the mound of software
In restless teams I code alone Coding's better on one's own 'Neath the halo of a desk lamp I
cast a String to make a time-date stamp When my eyes were stabbed by the flash of an error light Can't get it right And
touched the mound of software
And in the dis-play light I saw Ten thousand co-ders, maybe more Coders talking without speaking Coders
hearing without listening Coders writing code that voices never share And no one dared Disturb the mound of software
"Fools", said I, "You do not know Software like a cancer grows Hear my words that I might
teach you Take my arms that I might reach you" But my words, like silent raindrops fell And echoed In the hells
of software
And the coders bowed and prayed To the E-X-E they made And the form flashed out its warning In
the words that it was forming And the sign said, "No words of the license are smitten when the code installs Whatever
befalls..." And whispered in the mounds of software
