Lasherism n. 

[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.