The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (30 December 2018):

Lasherism

    (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 behaviour.

   [Jargon File]

   (1994-12-07)