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); one that could only have
been composed by a true wizard. Compiler optimization
techniques and many aspects of OS design used to be deep magic; m
graphics, and AI still are. Compare heavy wizardry. Esp.
found in comments of the form "Deep magic begins here...".
Compare voodoo programming.
[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); one that could only have
been composed by a true wizard. Compiler optimization
techniques and many aspects of OS design used to be deep magic; m
graphics, and AI still are. Compare heavy wizardry. Esp.
found in comments of the form "Deep magic begins here...".
Compare voodoo programming.
Related:
- deep magic: [poss. from C. S. Lewis's "Narnia" books] n.
An awesomely arcane technique central to a program... - 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... - 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... - black art: n. A collection of arcane, unpublished, and (by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... - voodoo programming: [from George Bush's "voodoo economics"] n.
The use by guess or cookbook of an {obscure} or {hairy}... - black art n.
[common] A collection of arcane,
unpublished,
and (by implication) mostly ad-hoc techniques developed... - voodoo programming n.
[from George Bush's "voodoo
economics"] 1.
The use by guess or cookbook of an obscure or hairy... - black magic: n. A technique that works, though nobody really
understands why.
More obscure than {voodoo programming}, which may... - magic: adj. 1. As yet unexplained, or too complicated to explain;
compare {automagically} and (Arthur C.) Clarke's Third...
From the same category:
- sagan /say'gn/ n.
[from Carl Sagan's TV series
"Cosmos";
think "billions of billions"] A large quantity of... - reply n.
See followup... - rusty iron n.
Syn. tired iron.
It has been claimed that this is the inevitable... - YHBT //
[Usenet: very common] Abbreviation: You Have
Been Trolled (see troll,
sense 1). Especially used in "YHBT. YHL. HAND... - flame war n.
[common] (var. `flamewar') An
acrimonious dispute,
especially when conducted on a public electronic...
