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.

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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. 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.

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