heavy wizardry
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heavy wizardry![]() ![]() Source: The Jargon File (version 4.4.7, 29 Dec 2003)
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.
Source: The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (26 July 2010) heavy wizardry 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. Especially found in source-code comments of the form "Heavy wizardry begins here". Compare voodoo programming. [Jargon File] Matching Word(s) heavy wizardry
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