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.

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