May 15, 2003

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.

Posted by Jargon File at May 15, 2003 10:43 AM

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