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. Esp.: found in source-code comments of the form "Heavy wizardry begins here". Compare {voodoo programming}.

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