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heavy wizardry


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.