heavy wizardry
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. Especially found in source-code comments of the form "Heavy wizardry begins here". Compare voodoo programming. [Jargon File]Nearby terms:
heavy metal ♦ heavyweight ♦ heavy wizardry ♦ Hebbian learning ♦ heisenbug
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