: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}.
-- The AI Hackers Dictionary
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}.
-- The AI Hackers Dictionary
Related:
- 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... - 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... - deep magic: [poss. from C. S. Lewis's "Narnia" books] n.
An awesomely arcane technique central to a program... - black art: n. A collection of arcane, unpublished, and (by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}... - 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... - 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unpublished,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... - runes: pl.n. 1. Anything that requires {heavy wizardry} or
{black art} to {parse}:
core dumps, JCL commands, APL, or code in a language...
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and precise lie rather than a vague and general lie.
Edward M.... - How many
Aquarians
-- does it take to change a light bulb?
Like, why don't you just get out of my face and stop... - Run to meet the future or it's going to run you down.
Anthony J. D'Angelo, The College Blue... - How do you know it's summer in Seattle?
The rain's warmer...
