The Mock Turtle's Song The Mock Turtle's Song "The Mock Turtle's Song", also known as the "Lobster Quadrille", is a song recited by the Mock Turtle in "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland", accompanied by a dance. It was taught to him at school by his teacher called Tortoise. "The Lobster Quadrille" is a song written by Charles Lutwidge Dodgson (Lewis Carroll). It is a parody of "The Spider and the Fly" by Mary Botham Howitt. It appeared in Chapter 10 of Carroll's book, "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland", and was sung by a character in the book, the Mock Turtle. The poem is very similar to
Worse is better Rise of Worse is Better", Gabriel claimed that "Worse-is-Better" is a model of software design and implementation which has the following characteristics (in approximately descending order of importance): Gabriel argued that early Unix and C, developed by Bell Labs, are examples of this design approach. Gabriel contrasted his philosophy with what he called the "MIT/Stanford style of design" or "MIT approach" (also known as "the Right Thing"), which he described as follows. Contrasts are in bold: Gabriel argued that "Worse is better" produced more "successful" software than the MIT approach: As long as the initial program is basically good, it