heavy wizardry

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heavy wizardry - Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (26 May 2007) :

  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.
  
     [Jargon File]
  

heavy wizardry - Jargon File (4.4.4, 14 Aug 2003) :

  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.