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<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>heavy wizardry</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="../H.html" title="H"/><link rel="previous" href="heavy-metal.html" title="heavy metal"/><link rel="next" href="heavyweight.html" title="heavyweight"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">heavy wizardry</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="heavy-metal.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">H</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="heavyweight.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="heavy-wizardry"/><dt xmlns="" id="heavy-wizardry"><b>heavy wizardry</b>: <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="grammar">n.</span></dt></dt><dd><p> Code or designs that trade on a particularly intimate knowledge or
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experience of a particular operating system or language or complex
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application interface. Distinguished from
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<a href="../D/deep-magic.html"><i class="glossterm">deep magic</i></a>, which trades more on arcane
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<span class="emphasis"><em>theoretical</em></span> knowledge. Writing device drivers is
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heavy wizardry; so is interfacing to <a href="../X/X.html"><i class="glossterm">X</i></a> (sense 2)
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without a toolkit. Esp.: found in source-code comments of the form
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“<span class="quote">Heavy wizardry begins here</span>”. Compare
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<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="heavy-metal.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../H.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="heavyweight.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">heavy metal </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> heavyweight</td></tr></table></div></body></html>
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