> I thought the original story implied that the primary purpose of the alleged hack was to make the program (a blackjack game) difficult for anyone else to unde

> I thought the original story implied that the primary purpose of the alleged hack was to make the program (a blackjack game) difficult for anyone else to understand and edit Nah the essay implies it was just Mel's style, due to coding on very resource-constrained systems. So Mel had a habit of data reuse, self-modifying code, and self-constraining timings (from the drum).