heavy wizardry

heavy wizardry

Code or designs that trade on a particularly intimateknowledge or experience of a particular operating system orlanguage or complex application interface. Distinguished fromdeep magic, which trades more on arcane *theoretical*knowledge. Writing device drivers is heavy wizardry; so isinterfacing to X (sense 2) without a toolkit. Especiallyfound in source-code comments of the form "Heavy wizardrybegins here".

Compare voodoo programming.