:deep magic: [poss. from C. S. Lewis's "Narnia" books] n. 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}; many techniques in
cryptography, signal processing, graphics, and AI still are.
Compare {heavy wizardry}. Esp. found in comments of the form
"Deep magic begins here...". Compare {voodoo programming}.
-- The AI Hackers Dictionary
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}; many techniques in
cryptography, signal processing, graphics, and AI still are.
Compare {heavy wizardry}. Esp. found in comments of the form
"Deep magic begins here...". Compare {voodoo programming}.
-- The AI Hackers Dictionary
Related:
- 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... - 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... - black art: n. A collection of arcane, unpublished, and (by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}... - 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.
[common] A collection of arcane,
unpublished,
and (by implication) mostly ad-hoc techniques developed... - black magic: n. A technique that works, though nobody really
understands why.
More obscure than {voodoo programming}, which may... - voodoo programming n.
[from George Bush's "voodoo
economics"] 1.
The use by guess or cookbook of an obscure or hairy... - magic: adj. 1. As yet unexplained, or too complicated to explain;
compare {automagically} and (Arthur C.) Clarke's Third...
