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• 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....
• deep magic n. [poss. from C. S. Lewis's "Narnia" books] An awesomely arcane technique central to a program or system, esp.
  one neither generally published nor available to hackers at large (compare black art)...
• deep magic: [poss. from C. S. Lewis's "Narnia" books] n.
  An awesomely arcane technique central to a program or system, esp....
• black art: n. A collection of arcane, unpublished, and (by implication) mostly ad-hoc techniques developed for a particular application or systems area (compare {black magic}).
  VLSI design and compiler code optimization were (in their beginnings) considered classic examples of black a...
• black art n. [common] A collection of arcane, unpublished, and (by implication) mostly ad-hoc techniques developed for a particular application or systems area (compare black magic).
  VLSI design and compiler code optimization were (in their beginnings) considered classic examples of black a...
• wizard: n. 1. A person who knows how a complex piece of software or hardware works (that is, who {grok}s it)
  esp. someone who can find and fix bugs quickly in an emergency....
• voodoo programming: [from George Bush's "voodoo economics"] n.
  The use by guess or cookbook of an {obscure} or {hairy} system, feature, or algorithm that one does not truly understand....
• voodoo programming n. [from George Bush's "voodoo economics"] 1.
  The use by guess or cookbook of an obscure or hairy system, feature, or algorithm that one does not truly understand....
• unes pl.n. 1. Anything that requires heavy wizardry or black art to parse
  core dumps, JCL commands, APL, or code in a language you haven't a clue how to read....