Re:code as art form - analogy to bridge building (Score 1)

Among Computer Scientists/Programmers there is a clear understanding that programs, like prose can be "elegant" and "beautiful". Perhaps it is enough to observe that Knuth's unfinished set of books is called "The Art of Computer Programming". Jon Bentley collected his CACM columns into books called "Programming Pearls".

Algorithms are closely related to mathematical theorems. In some cases, theorems consist of an algorithm. I do not think a judge would question whether a Mathematics paper could be considered a worthy intellectual creation.