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deep magic
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2014-04-26 11:54:15 -04:00
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n. [poss. from C. S. Lewis's Narnia books] An awesomely arcane technique
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central to a program or system, esp. one neither generally published nor
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available to hackers at large (compare black art ); one that could only have
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been composed by a true wizard. Compiler optimization techniques and many
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aspects of OS design used to be deep magic ; many techniques in
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cryptography, signal processing, graphics, and AI still are. Compare heavy
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wizardry. Esp.: found in comments of the form Deep magic begins here....
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Compare voodoo programming.
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