[poss. from C. S. Lewis's Narnia books] An awesomely arcane technique
central to a program or system, esp. one neither generally published
nor available to hackers at large (compare {black art}); one that
could only have been composed by a true {wizard}. Compiler
optimization techniques and many aspects of {OS} design used to be
{deep magic}; many techniques in cryptography, signal processing,
graphics, and AI still are. Compare {heavy wizardry}. Esp.: found in
comments of the form "Deep magic begins here...". Compare {voodoo
programming}.
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[Reference(s) to this entry by made by: {black art}{black magic}{deep magic}{heavy wizardry}{magic}{SCSI voodoo}{voodoo programming}{wizard}]