Beautiful Soup

The term Beautiful Soup originates with Lewis Carroll's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and a song Beautiful Soup sung by the Mock Turtle during the Lobster Quadrille chapter.

It has since been used elsewhere:

Music

Boeing Duveen and The Beautiful Soup, a British psychedelic rock band of the 1960s. In the style of its time, a direct reference to Alice.

Computing

Beautiful Soup (HTML parser), a HTML parser written in the Python programming language. The name is derived more from the unrelated 'tag soup', the unstructured and almost unparseable HTML found on most websites.

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