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• bible: n. 1. One of a small number of fundamental source books such as {Knuth} and {K&R}.
  2. The most detailed and authoritative reference for a particular language, operating system, or other complex software system....
• 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....
• 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....
• ystem n. 1. The supervisor program or OS on a computer.
  2. The entire computer system, including input/output devices, the supervisor program or OS, and possibly other software....
• ystem: n. 1. The supervisor program or OS on a computer.
  2. The entire computer system, including input/output devices, the supervisor program or OS, and possibly other software....
• TeX /tekh/ n. An extremely powerful macro-based text formatter written by Donald E.
  Knuth, very popular in the computer-science community (it is good enough to have displaced Unix troff, the other favored formatter, even at many Unix installations)....
• 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....
• This is UNIX, the most wellknown programming language/ operating system, you've never heard of.
• chain 1. vi. [orig. from BASIC's CHAIN statement] To hand off execution to a child or successor without going through the OS command interpreter that invoked it.
  The state of the parent program is lost and there is no returning to it....