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<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>black art</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="../../jargon.css" type="text/css"/><meta name="generator" content="DocBook XSL Stylesheets V1.61.0"/><link rel="home" href="../index.html" title="The Jargon File"/><link rel="up" href="../B.html" title="B"/><link rel="previous" href="bixie.html" title="bixie"/><link rel="next" href="black-hat.html" title="black hat"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">black art</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="bixie.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">B</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="black-hat.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="black-art"/><dt xmlns="" id="black-art"><b>black art</b>: <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="grammar">n.</span></dt></dt><dd><p> [common] A collection of arcane, unpublished, and (by implication)
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mostly ad-hoc techniques developed for a particular application or systems
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area (compare <a href="black-magic.html"><i class="glossterm">black magic</i></a>). VLSI design and
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compiler code optimization were (in their beginnings) considered classic
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examples of black art; as theory developed they became
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<a href="../D/deep-magic.html"><i class="glossterm">deep magic</i></a>, and once standard textbooks had been written, became
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merely <a href="../H/heavy-wizardry.html"><i class="glossterm">heavy wizardry</i></a>. The huge proliferation of
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formal and informal channels for spreading around new computer-related
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technologies during the last twenty years has made both the term <span class="firstterm">black art</span> and what it describes less common
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than formerly. See also <a href="../V/voodoo-programming.html"><i class="glossterm">voodoo programming</i></a>.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="bixie.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../B.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="black-hat.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">bixie </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> black hat</td></tr></table></div></body></html>
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