Heavy wizardry

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heavy wizardry

Usage: n. See Also: voodoo programming

heavy wizardry: n.

Code or designs that trade on a particularly intimate knowledge or experience of a particular operating system or language or complex application interface. Distinguished from deep magic, which trades more on arcane theoretical knowledge. Writing device drivers is heavy wizardry; so is interfacing to X (sense 2) without a toolkit. Esp.: found in source-code comments of the form "Heavy wizardry begins here". Compare voodoo programming.

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