[Harvard] A program that solves a standard problem (such as the Eight Queens puzzle or implementing the [life] algorithm) in a deliberately nonstandard way. Distinguished from a [crock] or [kluge] by the fact that the programmer did it on purpose as a mental exercise. Such constructions are quite popular in exercises such as the [Obfuscated C Contest], and occasionally in [retrocomputing]. Lew Lasher was a student at Harvard around 1980 who became notorious for such behavior.
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