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}.

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[Reference(s) to this entry by made by: {black art}{deep magic}{magic}{runes}{SCSI voodoo}{voodoo programming}{wizard}]