LASHERISM

Domain	Definition
Computing	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. Source: Jargon File.
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Anagrams: LASHERISM

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-e-h-i-l-m-r-s-s"
	-1 letter: hairless, harmless, marishes, mishears, realisms.
	-2 letters: aimless, airless, armless, ashlers, hailers, hirsels, hirsles, lashers, mailers, marshes, mashers, mashies, massier, messiah, mishear, realism, remails, resails, rimless, sailers, samiels, seismal, serails, serials, shalier, sheilas, shmears, slasher, smasher, smilers.
	-3 letters: aimers, aisles, almehs, ariels, arises, armies, ashier, ashler, emails, hailer, halers, harems, hassel, hassle, hermai, hiemal.
	Words containing the letters "a-e-h-i-l-m-r-s-s"
	+2 letters: marshalcies, thimerosals.
	+4 letters: accomplishers, hyperrealisms, imperishables.
	+5 letters: amphiprostyles, hemerocallises, lachrymosities, plasmapheresis, theatricalisms, thermoplastics.
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